Dan Millman Quotes

Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking. You can believe easily because in belief you are not going to be transformed. Belief is something added to you, something superficial. Your being is not changed; you are not passing through some mutation.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Any desire to grow is following the flow of love

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

A true initiation never ends.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

I find myself only by losing myself.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.

Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.