Dan Millman - Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980)

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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.

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It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

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

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Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

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Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.

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

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While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

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When you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

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To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

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It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

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You will be free of the world's turbulence as soon as you stop taking your thoughts so seriously.

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Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.

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Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

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All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.

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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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