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  1. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    Finally, I realized the process of real meditation-to expand awareness, to direct attention, to ultimately surrender to the light of consciousness.
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  2. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    The world was peopled with minds, whirling faster than any wind, in search of distraction and escape from the predicament of change, the dilemma of life and death - seeking purpose, security, enjoyment, trying to make sense of the mystery. Everyone everywhere lived a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned. And the source of it all was the human mind.
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  3. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    The birth of the mind is the death of the senses - it's not that we eat an apple and get a little sexy!
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  4. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    The rain was a perfectly lawful display of nature. Your 'upset' at the ruined picnic and your 'happiness' when the sun reappeared were the product of your thoughts. They had nothing to do with the actual events. Haven't you been 'unhappy' at celebrations for example? It is obvious then that your mind, not other people or your surroundings, is the source of your moods. That is the first lesson.
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  5. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fencesitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die.
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  6. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    I'd better redefine some terms for you. 'Mind' is one of those slippery terms like 'love.' The proper definition depends on your state of consciousness. Look at it this way: You have a brain that directs the body, stores information, and plays with that information. We refer to the brain's abstract processes as 'the intellect.' Nowhere have I mentioned mind. The brain and the mind are not the same. The brain is real; the mind isn't. "'Mind' is an illusory reflection of cerebral fidgeting. It comprises all the random, uncontrolled thoughts that bubble into awareness from the subconscious. Consciousness is not mind; awareness is not mind; attention is not mind. Mind is an obstruction, an aggravation. It is a kind of evolutionary mistake in the human being, a primal weakness in the human experiment. I have no use for the mind.
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  7. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    his mind creates both his disappointments and his - joys.
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  8. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    Meditating an action is different from doing it. To do, there is a doer, a self-conscious 'someone' performing. But when you meditate an action, you've already released attachment to outcomes. There's no 'you' left to do it. In forgetting yourself, you become what you do, so your action is free, spontaneous, without ambition, inhibition, or fear.
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  9. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    Moderation?" He leaped up on the desk, like an evangelist. "Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fencesitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation" - he took a deep breath, getting ready for his final condemnation - "is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew!
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  10. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.
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  11. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    When you sit, sit; when you stand, stand; whatever you do, don't wobble.' Once you make your choice, do it with all your spirit. Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love to his wife, and thought about making love to his wife while praying.
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  12. Dan Millman _ Way of the Peaceful Warrior

    Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.
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