The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
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… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take.… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
