Dan Millman Quotes

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.

Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I had always owned them to be the Word of GOD . . . the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by GOD.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

May the peace of God disturb you always.

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.

[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.