Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. When you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

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About Dan Millman

Daniel Jay Millman (born February 22, 1946) is an American author and lecturer in the personal development field and NCAA Champion and US Hall of Fame gymnast. He is best known for the movie Peaceful Warrior, based on his own life and taken from one of his books.

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The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

Everyone tells you what to do and what's good for you. They don't want you to find your own answers. They want you to believe theirs.

—Dan Millman in Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Every positive change—every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness—involves a rite of passage. Each time, to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation.

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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

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Freedom in not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent

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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

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A person who says, "I'm enlightened," probably isn't.

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Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

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History

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