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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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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
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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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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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The only laws are paradox, humor and change.
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In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.
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Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.
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The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?
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Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.
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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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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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. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.
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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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Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf
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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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We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.
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Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.
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