Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior Quotes

“The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“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.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“We cannot always do great things in life, but we can do small things with great love.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“There is no way to peace; Peace is the Way. There is no way to happiness; Happiness is the Way. There is no way to love; Love is the Way.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“To really help people, you first need to understand them—but first understand yourself, prepare yourself; develop the clarity, the courage, and the sensitivity to exert the right leverage, in the right place, at the right time. Then your actions will have power. History,” he added, “holds many examples of individuals and nations who acted without the wisdom to foresee the consequences”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song. But in that dance, and in that song, the most ancient rites of our conscience fulfill themselves in the awareness of being human. —Pablo Neruda, Toward the Splendid City”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“Just handle what's 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.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“The real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. —Meister Eckehart”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“Ignorance, as well as wisdom, is handed down from one generation to the next like a precious heirloom.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“When energy is thrown away without purpose or wisdom, you feel an instinctive loss of life, a sense of sorrow.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“infant. There was no shame in being seen, no disgrace in being human.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“But energy must flow somewhere,” his voice continued. “Where energy meets obstructions, it burns — and if energy builds up beyond what a given individual can tolerate, it demands release. Anger grows into rage, sorrow turns to despair, concern becomes obsession, and physical aches become agony. So energy can also be a curse. Like a river, it can bring life, but untamed it can unleash a raging flood of destruction.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“It’s different,” I said. “No,” she replied. “You are.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“Warriors confront their demons head-on; by doing so, you’ve dissolved them,”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“If I am not for myself,
Who will be for me?
And if I am only for myself,
What am I?
And if not now, when? — Hillel, Sayings of the Fathers”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“Yet acting without understanding may create even more problems. Sometimes you need to simply relax into life, and to trust.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“The first step to change, as I expect Socrates showed you, is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the patterns in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in God’s hands, not yours.”
― Dan Millman, SACRED JOURNEY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR

“Moments”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“The real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes. —Marcel Proust”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“You will look forward to getting up each day just to help another soul, another part of your Self.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“What is to give light
must endure burning.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“To the fish, the sea is air.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“A helpful rainsquall washed the papaya juice from my face and hands and chest; then the sun dried me, and the wind blow-dried my hair and beard.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“This magical night seemed unreal, or rather, as real as a dream.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“The forest didn’t really change much at night, but I did.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“Sull'acqua, sotto il mare,
in alto nel bosco sarai.
Fidati del tuo istinto, nel mare;
riporta a me il tuo tesoro.
Se lo troverai, come dovresti,
viaggerai, giorno e notte.
Appena lo vedrai, lo saprai, come sopra così sotto.
Quando lo avrai afferrato, sarai
pronto ad attraversare il mare.”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“The secret of success in life: Prepare for opportunity when it comes. —Benjamin Disraeli”
― Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior