Every year I take one big trip somewhere I have always dreamed of going. The list of destinations that I wish to experience grows by the day. This past April, I was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, visiting a friend from college who spent the past eight months living and traveling in South America. He is an amazingly inspiring person whose insights and opinions I welcome warmly and with high regard. It was on this trip that he had Recommended the book “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” by Dan Millman.

The novel itself is an application of spiritual enlightenment without the biases of any particular religious denomination. It is a source of realizing personal development in everyday life. If you want a quick read with some valuable food for thought, consider Dan Millman’s writings from which I extracted these quotes to live by…

“It’s better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.”

“Every Infant lives in a bright Garden where everything is sensed directly, without the veils of thought – free of beliefs, interpretation and judgements…You ‘fell’ from grace when you began thinking about – when you become a namer and a knower. It’s not just Adam and Eve you see, its all of us. The Birth of the mind is the death of the senses”

“Understand this above all. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you expect or hope for…Your sorrow, your fear and anger, regret and guilt, your envy and plans and cravings live only in the past, or in the future.
Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or the future, Its only power over you is to draw your attention out of the present”

” Happiness = Satisfaction/Desires