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Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives |  | Author: Dan Millman
Publisher: HJ Kramer
Category: Book
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Rating:  282 reviews
Sales Rank: 9984
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1932073205
Dewey Decimal Number: 204.4
EAN: 9781932073201
ASIN: 1932073205
Publication Date: April 13, 2006
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During his junior year at the University of California, Dan Millman first stumbled upon his mentor (nicknamed Socrates) at an all-night gas station. At the time, Millman hoped to become a world-champion gymnast. "To survive the lessons ahead, you're going to need far more energy than ever before," Socrates warned him that night. "You must cleanse your body of tension, free your mind of stagnant knowledge, and open your heart to the energy of true emotion." From there, the unpredictable Socrates proceeded to teach Millman the "way of the peaceful warrior." At first Socrates shattered every preconceived notion that Millman had about academics, athletics, and achievement. But eventually Millman stopped resisting the lessons, and began to try on a whole new ideology--one that valued being conscious over being smart, and strength in spirit over strength in body. Although the character of the cigarette-smoking Socrates seems like a fictional, modern-day Merlin, Millman asserts that he is based on an actual person. Certain male readers especially appreciate the coming-of-age theme, the haunting love story with the elusive woman Joy, and the challenging of Western beliefs about masculine power and success. --Gail Hudson
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Way of the Peaceful Warrior is based on the story of Dan Millman, a world champion athlete, who journeys into realms of romance and magic, light and darkness, body, mind, and spirit. Guided by a powerful old warrior named Socrates and tempted by an elusive, playful woman named Joy, Dan is led toward a final confrontation that will deliver or destroy him. Readers join Dan as he learns to live as a peaceful warrior. This international bestseller conveys piercing truths and humorous wisdom, speaking directly to the universal quest for happiness.
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 Are you ready for this? November 18, 2009
Tax Lady
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Do not get this unless you are ready for an eye opening experience. A spiritual eye that is. Awesome!
Very good insights November 7, 2009
Timothy E. Crosley (Annapolis, MD USA)
I have read several "self-help" books, and the advice in almost all of them is to focus on what you want to get. This book is a welcome divurging from that incorrect(and depressing) outlook on life. If you spend all of your time focusing on the home you "will have" in 10 years or that dream job/car or whatever it may be for you(and this is exactly what "The Secret" suggests you do) you will not be able to enjoy the moment you are in. And heaven forbid it does not pan out because then you may not even have a few moments of happiness. The philosophy in this book is one of making the most of every moment, never taking anything for grated, enjoying what you have and doing your best now.
 way of peaceful warrior November 2, 2009
Dogen (Maine,U. S..A.)
For entertaining reading this is a good book.
For promoting MORE thinking, this book will do it.
However, I wouldn't fool myself into thinking this book will change my life.
The inner journey is an individual trip, not a guided tour.
 EXCELLENT November 1, 2009
William R. Nicholas (Mahwah, NJ USA)
I have read worrior once yearly for the past ten, and gone back to sections many many times.
This is, on the most simplistic level, a novel, but obviously qusifiction meant to demonstrate metephysical points. Here is what I gleened
1-The less attached you are to objects, ideas or goals, the more happy you will be. Your happiness simply IS: it does not depend on external events.
2-Hard work and getting down to the essentials of life is one way to strip away the attachments and get back to the natural self--again, the happiness that IS
3-No actions are good or bad, habits and states of being are
All this is interesting, and I find great sympathy with it, even though at times it is impossible to impliment. Since Worrier is written in fiction style, it is sometimes hard to internalize each lesson in your mind--a lot of the ideas are extremely abstract. Even Dan has not really gotten it when he is so sure he has. Perhaps a summery of concepts as an apendix would help.
I also wonder: Is this the path to enlightenment, or DAN's path. Are the techniques Socraties uses his, or is he shape shifting just for what Dan needed at the time.
As a learning coach myself, I am not a beliver in demanding more and more, the best not being good enough. Socraties can be pretty hard on Dan, but is this his inharent approach, or just the one he morphed around Dan's initial brattiness and vainess.
Please: i am inviting comments on all of the above, though i am sure i will read and learn from this book many more times.
Breath of fresh air September 10, 2009
Dr. Benjamin (San Diego, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a refreshing change--it makes a person think and makes us question if the life we are building for oursleves is the one we want to live in. I found it very useful for where I am at in my life at this point and am ready to read the sequel.
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