Peaceful Warrior News & Notes

Peaceful Warrior News & Notes – Summer 2010

July 7th, 2010 | Author: admin

Greetings Peaceful Warriors:

I thought you might enjoy this summer edition of News & Notes with a variety of items and, as always, some favorite quotations — wisdom reminders.

If I could, I’d give each of you a howdy handshake or hug. In these changing (and for many, challenging) times, know that I send some heartfelt best wishes to you and yours.

And note that every week or so I send out a favorite quotation or reminder on my Facebook fan page, and via Twitter – quick and easy ways to stay in touch.

Dan

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Let’s Start with some Quotations:

Desperation can be as powerful
inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

We read to know we are not alone.
C.S. Lewis

Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

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An Older Classic Music Video Revisited

Interesting how we tend to look for the next new thing. But newer isn’t always better. We do have some pop stars and American Idols and gleeful vocalists belting out catchy tunes. Well, here’s one worth another look from the King of Pop. (Whatever one thinks or believes about the amazing, creative and ultimately tragic life of Michael Jackson, the art he helped to create — and the sentiments expressed — only improve over time.) Remember the mind-blowing morphing at the end of the video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2AitTPI5U0

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And Speaking of Music . . . ”Warriors”

My friend and colleague in spirit, Ansgar Ueffink, producer of the VARGO music group, and producer of the hit single “Warriors” (mixing quality music with some of my spoken reminders), has had a warm response, so far, to his:

WARRIORS IN THE MIX – Remix Contest -

Around the World in Twenty-Four Days

From Ansgar: “To be honest: this is so much more than we expected. Our remix contest triggered an overwhelming feedback. 54 colleagues from 22 countries replied to our call to create their personal interpretation of the Vargo/Dan Millman collaboration “Warriors.” Within 24 days our remix files went around the world and brought a global music community into being. As Patricia Leidig from the wonderful Spanish band Almadrava wrote on our Facebook page: “VARGO – connecting people.”

We’re extremely impressed with the quality and the stylistic variety of the contributions, and we recommend you check them out for yourself on our YouTube channel. You can help your favourite mix win the contest. Just spread the word by sending it to your friends or posting it on your Facebook page. Because the mix with the most clicks will win and be included on the Warriors EP to be released on August 20th. Voting wil begin on Tuesday, July 6th, and end on Monday, July 12th, 5 pm GMT. We’ll announce the winner the day after that on www.vargoworld.com. And now it’s your turn. Please pick your favourite mix. Have fun listening and voting!
~ Your Vargo crew

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Sometimes I think that
not thinking about oneself
is a form of prayer.
Barbara G. Harrison

The day will happen
whether or not you get up.
John Ciardi

The trouble with life
isn’t that there is no answer,
but that there are so many answers.
Ruth Benedict, anthropologist

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After one look at this planet,
any visitor from outer space would say,
“I want to see the manager.”
William S. Burroughs

Think for yourselves
and let others enjoy the privilege
to do so too.
Voltaire
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Movie Review:

Here’s a little film that may have briefly visited theaters, now on DVD: “Idiocracy” starring Luke Wilson, Directed by Mike Judge. (Linked to a “rottentomatoes” review.) You may love it; you may not. It’s a mixed bag, for sure — and certainly not your classic “spiritual cinema”!

NOTE: The movie is R-rated, and may be inappropriate or offensive to some. But I tend to like off-the-traveled path, quirky films. Around 1969 or 1970 I walked into a theater in the middle of an afternoon and caught a sneak preview of “Harold and Maude” (and at the end of the film I turned around, and “Maude” (Ruth Gordon) was sitting right behind me! (Did you know that Ruth Gordon, besides being an actress, was one of Hollywood’s top screenwriters, having co-written a number of Tracy-Hepburn films?)

I don’t know if “Idiocracy” stands up to “Harold and Maude” or one of my all-time favorites — “Groundhog Day” — and wouldn’t exactly call it a “gem” — but it made an impression on me. A clever satire and almost prophetically scary (if sometimes crass) comedy about one possible dystopian future toward which we may be trending . . . Idiocracy

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Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin

A life spent in making mistakes
is not only more honorable,
but more useful,
than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Our errors are our portals of discovery.
James Joyce

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Book Updates:

PEACEFUL WARRIOR: The Graphic Novel (Oct 2010) is now finished.

THE FOUR PURPOSES OF LIFE (April 2011) is nearly done.

Hope to draft yet another book before the end of this year. Stay tuned…

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No amount of fine feelling
can take the place of faithful doing.
William Barclay

If you think you’re lucky, you are.
Bobby Dodd

When you’re safe at home
you wish you were having an adventure;
when you’re having an adventure
you wish you were safe at home.
Thornton Wilder

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A Preview: One Page from PEACEFUL WARRIOR: The Graphic Novel

Click here to view the page…

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The most beautiful sight in the world
is a little child going confidently down the road
after you have shown him the way.
Confucius

A baby has a way of making a man out of his father
and a boy out of his grandfather.
Angie Papadakis

My father didn’t tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence B. Kelland

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A Nice Gift

I recently received a lovely letter and photo I thought you might enjoy:

Hi Dan, I live in New Jersey with my husband and 2 children, all fans of your writing. For Christmas my husband gave me one of the best gifts ever. He gave me three of your books, and made a sign for me with my favorite quote from Way of the Peaceful Warrior. The sign is now hanging in our family room so we all can be reminded of it every day. It makes me smile!

~Sally S.

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Here’s to some wonderful summer moments!

Until next time,

Dan

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