Daniel Jay Millman (born February 22, 1946) is an American author and lecturer in the personal development field.
When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.
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.
Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!
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.
To see where something leads, it's best to wait until you've reached the end.
Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.
While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.
The only laws are paradox, humor and change.
Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.
Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.
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.
In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.
Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is. . . The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take. And as you begin to treat yourself with more respect, other people begin to do the same, since we subconsciously "train" others how to treat us through messages we send through body language, tone of voice, and other subtle cues and behaviors. Discovering your innate worth and living from that place allows you to make more constructive choices-to choose the higher roads of life
Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation
You have to lose your mind in order to regain your senses.
Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf
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.