Dan Millman Quotes

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.