Top 190 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Millman - Page 2

Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.

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.

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.

You have to lose your mind in order to regain your senses.

No amount of knowledge will nourish or sustain your spirit, it can never bring you ulimate happiness or peace. Life requires more that knowledge; it requires intense feeling and constant energy. Life demands right action if knowledge is to come alive.

To be authentic literally means to be your own author.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

Live with a peaceful heart; cultivate a warrior's spirit.

A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.

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.

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.

A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.

When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.

Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act; doing becomes understanding.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do what you can as only you can do it.

May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

We discover our character through decisions under pressure.

Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.

We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but we need to connect the dots between where we are and where we are going, one day, one moment at a time.

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.

There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

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.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

. . . 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.

A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell me the second most important element?"And the roshi replied, "Attention."

Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.

Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.

No need to feel brave or confident; just behave that way.

Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

You are a dynamic whole greater than the sum of your parts. By integrating your body, mind, and emotions through training, you reshape your life.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

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.

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

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 harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.

Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.