Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.
Dan MillmanA flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.
Dan MillmanSo be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you wonโt be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.
Dan MillmanIf there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.
Dan Millman