“I closed my eyes to meditate, but realized that I was always meditating now, with my eyes wide open.” — 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… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings." — Dan Millman Awakening Copy Share Image
When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way. — Dan Millman Attachment Copy Share Image
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but… — Dan Millman Approach Copy Share Image
So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those… — Dan Millman Action Copy Share Image
A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to… — Dan Millman Blessing Copy Share Image
Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.… — Dan Millman Action Copy Share Image
No amount of knowledge will nourish or sustain your spirit, it can never bring you ulimate happiness or peace. Life requires more… — Dan Millman Action Copy Share Image
Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it. — Dan Millman Absence Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and… — Dan Millman Acting Copy Share Image
“When the mind is creating troubles, it’s time to come back to the body and the serenity of the present moment.” — Dan Millman Mind Copy Share Image
“Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors. —… — Dan Millman Warrior Copy Share Image
A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But… — Dan Millman Attention Copy Share Image
Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as… — 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,… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell… — Dan Millman Academic Copy Share Image
Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious… — Dan Millman Action Copy Share Image
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and… — Dan Millman Acceptance Copy Share Image
“We all know that life has ups and downs; you’ve experienced both. And though you can’t always control what happens outside you,… — Dan Millman Circumstance Copy Share Image