While training to become a world champion gymnast during his junior year at the University of California, Dan Millman encountered a 94-year-old mentor nicknamed Socrates. This compelling, surprising and mysterious character taught him an effective way to unleash his full performance potential through a distinctive blend of Eastern philosophy and Western fitness. The “way of the peaceful warrior” would help him develop the genuine essence of a champion. Millman shares his first-person account of a journey toward illumination, darkness, mind, body and soul in this life-changing global bestseller, revealing the keys to happiness and fulfillment. |
The eagerly awaited sequel, to the author's bestselling Way of the Peaceful Warrior, provides Millman's growing legion of fans with perennial wisdom and guidance for life, as he shares his adventures on the first steps of his sacred journey. |
In his landmark 1980 novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Millman blended fact and fiction to tell the story of a young man whose life is transformed by his encounter with a mysterious sage named Socrates. In this intriguing follow-up, Socrates takes center stage. It's late 19th-century Russia, and young Sergei Ivanov has been drafted into training to become one of the czar's elite guards. When Sergei saves the life of a brutal fellow student, Dmitri Zakolyev, during a difficult training exercise, he knows this act has actually made him an enemy. Millman's narration clips along, and he does a fine job with period flourishes. But the extended training chapters suffer from clichés of character and narrative, and dampen the suspense. A shocking surprise about the fate of Sergei's unborn child and a ham-fisted meeting between Sergei and his rival strain credibility, but Millman's fluid storytelling makes this an easy read. |
A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life Dan Millman takes the perennial wisdom on maintaining inner peace and equanimity and puts it into straightforward, everyday language and useful exercises. A most valuable book. By changing ourselves, we can change our world. |
The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth Dan Millman tells listeners how to see the spiritual in everyday life. With this clear, straightforward guide, he tells them how to achieve the self-esteem to want more; rediscover the will to do; learn to welcome money into their lives; accept their emotions as they are; see how fear can lead to courage; recognize how sex can serve as a path to God; understand how serving others will complete the circle of life; and more. |
A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose Best-selling author Millman invites readers into the world of The Life Purpose System, a method of life-purpose analysis that is similar to numerology yet more practical, using the time of our birth as the indicator of right livelihood. Millman doesn't stop at discussing the eleven basic life paths or their several variations, but has much to say about the influence of spiritual laws, from flexibility and balance to discipline and perfection. Issues of relationship and the cycles of life complete this ambitious work. The Life Purpose System helps us to expand our awareness of ourselves and others. |
Millman, the author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior, has another likely bestseller in this book. The fictional story begins with the author/hero taking a walk in the mountains and meeting a wise woman who leads him on a journey to places not connected by our understanding of spatial reality. Along this journey, she teaches our hero some simple spiritual principles, such as The Law of Balance, The Law of Integrity, The Law of Action. Each of the twelve laws is illustrated by coupling the heros simple ignorance with the wise woman's storytelling. Readers who have enjoyed Millman's other books will certainly want this one; his easy conversational style is still engaging. |
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