Dan Millman Quotes - Page 5

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.

. . . 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.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

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.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles.

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

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

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

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.

Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.

Although motivation comes and goes, you can always rely on your will.

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

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

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.

To see where something leads, it's best to wait until you've reached the end.

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

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.

Better never begin; once begun, better finish.

The warrior acts, the fool reacts.

Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.