Comments on: Everyday Enlightenment By Dan Millman — Day 27 Of The PhilosophersNotes Challenge

By: CVircillo

CVircillo — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:08:36 +0000

Everyday Enlightenment
Dan Millman
Bringing your spiritual quest down to earth. Great to see the 12 Gateways to Personal Growth.
Interesting — the most sensitive, self reflective souls among us — those of us with the highest vision ideals and standards often have the lowest sense of self worth, because we constantly fail to meet our idealized standards.
The ignorant are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt
Our sense of worth grows by doing what is worthy
Live our truth.
Make any positive habit as easy as possible and visa versa with negative ones.
Carpe Punctum — Seize the moment
Every moment is an opportunity to step forward into growth or backward into safety
Close the gap between what we are capable of doing and actually doing.
Whatever form fear takes, your willingness to face it squarely will determine your fate in the high country of human potential.
Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
It’s all your perception and that you can change.
Do what you need to do despite they way you are feeling — remain productive.
Live a simple, functional, ordinary life without clinging, craving, or holding on.
For the heart to awaken it can not exclude a single soul including yourself.
Find a form of service that calls to you, suits your abilities, aptitudes, qualities, interests, that makes time fly, that draws forth your best, that tells you you’ve arrived home and found yourself.
You are not here to contact your higher self you are here to become it.

Great note. Really enjoyed this one.
Christina

By: emilierocket

emilierocket — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:46:26 +0000

yes weird things happen online… it happened to mee too on soem over site…! Accepting is good

By: emilierocket

emilierocket — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:44:49 +0000

THANK YOU THANK YOU HOW AMAZING!!! EXACTLY what I needed to hear/confirm RIGHT NOW!!
it’s about living on this PLANET!! ACCEPTING & LOVING our bodies our incarnation<3
I realize today how I have been not accepting for TOOO long! THANK YOU for saying how the most sensitive souls often have the lowest self worth! THat’s EXACTLY it! I am discovering how I need to BE GENTLE with MYSELF<3 but still boost myself and TAKE ACTIONS!!
And how FUN to see the synchronicity always, Love this GROUNDED & ENLIGHTENED words! GREAT BALANCE! Dan Millman has SO much WISDOM & very SIMPLY put! I LOVE IT!!
THANK YOU<3 JUST DO IT , STEP FORWARD INTO GROWTH! YES!! I AM WILLING TO<3 GENTLY
LIFE is just a series of MOMENTS!! and ITS ALWAYS HERE <3 humm pressure , just enough, not too much!<3
If spiritual life begins on the ground, MONEY forms a foundation on which to BUILD!! that’s a good one!
and of course SELF LOVE again<3
GREAT NOTES, GREAT IDEAS, THANK YOU <3

By: Susieg

Susieg — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:37:27 +0000

Hi, I've been away from the notes again and man does1 it show up in my life! I started a new job and I've been doing "job" stuff when what I really need is PN to help me get through my new job. Today's note has some really good ideas that can help. negative habits/positive habits, I find myself doing unproductive stuff like emails too when I really need to be creating things for my classroom to run smoothly. Feeling of worth, man oh man. this new job is crating feelings of inadequacy in me like crazy. I feel much better when I take the time to reflect and realize that "hey, my learning curve is going to feel uncomfortable for awhile, working with a severely aggressive, non-verbal, autistic, 180 pound boy IS a challenge and stress IS going to happen". Take time to be OK with the feelings and not let them freeze me into not moving on and being productive in the rest of my day! I sieze the moment and enjoy the funny things that happen, applaud the growth I do see in the other students, and say"that was a great lesson I just taught".

By: JeannetteS

JeannetteS — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:44:39 +0000

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And the last idea of LOVE…something I am working so hard on right now. I hold back a lot in many ways with fully embracing love and not only is it detrimental on some levels but it also takes away from creating and being fully engaged in relationships with the people who I value most and look up to. So crazy how this theme of LOVE keeps coming up for me. Definitely a clear sign to let down the wall and let LOVE in!

Thank You again for an incredible note. Love it!!

By: JeannetteS

JeannetteS — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:42:09 +0000

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I respect my emotions and I know that by allowing them to takeover I will never ever be able to live my dreams fully. The best way I can honor them is to continue living in the moment and give myself the opportunity to prove them wrong if need be.

And hello…the money & enlightenment idea. This is big time HUGE!! I am happy to say that I have never viewed goodness with having less money however I have had some feelings of shame/guilt with having more money. I imagine that others will judge me as snobby for having more which is totally not real! Also I am afraid to ask for what I know if my worth. First off I am not snobby and second I want to help others with my money, not shop like a maniac on 5th Avenue! Third, I have so much to offer that if I can see the value in others and support them than clearly others will see the value in me and support me. I need to let go of these false judgements as it is seriously stopping me from moving forward.

By: JeannetteS

JeannetteS — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:37:49 +0000

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It’s so crazy to me how we can value others so much more than our own self, especially when does others can let us down and hurt us. Definitely doesn’t serve either myself or others to not respect and honor my own worth. Same goes for others…with compassion I can see the worth of others, even strangers.

LOVED the concept of Carpe Punctum!! One thing this challenge has definitely helped me do is live more in the moment and really take in life as it is right now. The more I practice the more my senses are more keen to the moment and the less my mind is somewhere else. I gaining more confidence in closing the gap b/n what I am capable of doing and what I am actually doing. It’s a thrilling and liberating experience and so grateful to be in a place where it’s all about the moment

Emotional Meterology…something very critical I learned this past weekend and somethning I am getting comfortable with. Many times my emotions are mental based so I am learning to get the mind chatter out and go with my initial response.

By: JeannetteS

JeannetteS — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:31:41 +0000

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Hi! So excited to get a tast of Everyday Enlightenment. I love Dan Milman and this is one book that I have not yet had a chance to read. Love the idea of bringing our spiritual quest down to Earth. It’s funny b/c one thing that has been coming up a lot for me during this challenge is taking all the years I’ve spent transforming my mindset and putting into action. Over the course of the last 4 weeks or so I have been doing that with small actions however have not been very consistent in them (still working on time management!). In any case the days I spend engaging in life in ways that align with my Spirit I feel on a whole new level. It’s a process making it an everyday way of being and I am getting there! Definitely needed this opening quote to remind me how important taking Action is (not that I really need it since it is mentioned in nearly every PN!).

Discover Your Worth..something I am definitely working on within myself. I forget which note is was that mentioned compassion (it was in the beginning) but have compassion for myself and others is helping me tremendously in owning and expressing my own worth.

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By: puresue

puresue — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:16:03 +0000

mmm.… spark of our own so true.…
i love that ..not fretting over a loss… i’m so loving that in my life..
“next“
and somasoma is sooo right it aint over after 50.….
this just keeps leaping me over my highest height…
thanks.…