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Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!

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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
Author
Competitive Diver
Motivational Speaker
Trampolinist
Writer
LA
California
Daniel Jay Millman
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Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.
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Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it you need to appreciate the failure and use it.
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When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.
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I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.
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A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do just do what you can as only you can do it.
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If you don't get what you want, you suffer if you get what you don't want, you suffer even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
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A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slipbackward -- we may actually be backing up to get a runningstart.
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Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.
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Your fears are not walls, but hurdles.
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My parents, like others of The Greatest Generation who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.
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No need to feel brave or confident just behave that way.
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Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes.
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Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.
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Anybody can be happy when things are going well, and I've learned that. But when things aren't going well it draws out the inner warrior in us to radiate that and bring whatever happiness we can to the situation.
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The warrior is Here, Now.
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Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.
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Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.
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When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.
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Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.
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