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Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

Dan Millman

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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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Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and living in accord with a higher will, expressed as the wisdom of the heart. Far more than passive acceptance, surrender uses every challenge as a means of spiritual growth and expanded awareness.
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Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.
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You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires that way you always have enough money.
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If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.
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This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.
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Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.
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When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving.
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Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.
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Life is not suffering it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.
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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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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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To see where something leads, it's best to wait until you've reached the end.
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Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life
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We discover our character through decisions under pressure.
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There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.
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Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.
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Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.
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Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.
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