Dan Millman
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.Collection: Faith
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.Collection: Success
I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.Collection: Time
I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.Collection: Technology
Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
There are no ordinary moments.
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.
I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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.
We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.
We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surfCollection: Surf
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.Collection: Trying
You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.Collection: Inspirational
This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Change
Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.Collection: Quality
Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.Collection: Giving Up
Dream big. Start small and then connect the dotsCollection: Dream
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.Collection: Stress
The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.Collection: Life
While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.Collection: Thinking
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.Collection: Inspirational
The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.Collection: Life Lesson
If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.Collection: Mind
Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.Collection: Sports
Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.Collection: Accepting What Is
The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Love
Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.Collection: Interesting
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.Collection: Blessed
You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.Collection: World
Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Heart
You have to lose your mind in order to regain your senses.Collection: Order
The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?Collection: Hours
You get no more and no less than what you believe you deserve.Collection: Believe
You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.Collection: Heart
We discover our character through decisions under pressure.Collection: Character
Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of life.Collection: Believe
Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.Collection: Self Worth