Dan Millman Quotes

Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.

Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.

The Earth school is not a concept. It is an an ongoing 3-dimesional, full colour, hi-fidelity, interactive multi-media experience that does not end until your soul goes home (until you die). Every moment in the earth school offers you important opportunities to learn about yourself. Those things have to do with your soul. The Earth school operates with exquisite perfection and efficiency whether you are aware of it or not.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

Every experience makes you grow.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.