"Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body." (Dan Millman, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior", 1980)
"Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared." (Dan Millman, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior", 1980)
"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." (Dan Millman, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior", 1980)
"To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new." (Dan Millman, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior", 1980)
"When you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you." (Dan Millman, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior", 1980)
"Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness." (Dan Millman, "Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior" (ed. Dan Millman, 1991)
"Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions." (Dan Millman, "No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life", 1992)
"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." (Dan Millman, "No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life", 1992)
"Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things." (Dan Millman, "No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life", 1992)
"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." (Dan Millman, "The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose", 1993)
"Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more." (Dan Millman, "The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work", 1995)
"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." (Dan Millman, "The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work", 1995)
"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." (Dan Millman, "The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work", 1995)
"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." (Dan Millman, "The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work", 1995)
"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." (Dan Millman, "The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work", 1995)
"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." (Dan Millman, "The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work", 1995)
"Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds." (Dan Millman, "Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth", 1998)
"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." (Dan Millman, "Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life", 1999)
"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." (Dan Millman, "Living on Purpose", 2000)
"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." (Dan Millman, "Living on Purpose", 2000)
"Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy." (Dan Millman, "Living on Purpose", 2000)
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