The songs often reinforce the spoken musings, as when Bird York, in 'Had a Dream,' sings, 'Where logic ends, faith begins.' Elsewhere, the performers seem to be illustrating the emotional and spiritual torment Millman's thoughts are meant to alleviate. Some may find Millman's pronouncements revelatory many others are liable to yawn. The problem comes when this sort of thing is passed off as 'wisdom' even though it barely constitutes common sense. Any set of positive aphorisms, whether taken from an ages-old religious document or last week's bestseller, may be useful to any given individual, as long as it doesn't lead to fanaticism and suicide bombing. These 'affirmations' are said to be nuggets of 'Eastern wisdom' Millman himself calls them 'fierce wisdom.' Less sympathetic listeners might prefer the description 'simple-minded claptrap.' But then, that's the conundrum of the self-help movement. None of Bennett Salvay's score is included, but the disc does contain 14 'uplifting songs,' as the press release puts it, among them a new track by David Gray and Yes singer Jon Anderson's 'Under the Sun.' In between each of the songs is a brief spoken word excerpt from the book read by Millman. C.This album is not so much a soundtrack to the film Peaceful Warrior, based on Dan Millman's book Way of the Peaceful Warrior, as it is an audio companion.I invite your insights and I would love to post relevant guest blogs! To do so, you will find yourself manifesting not only a WarriorРІР‚в„ўs energy, but also that of the Nourisher, the generous Golden Child, the Idealist and/or Artist, and possibly also, the Mystic. Strive to find that CENTER within your Self, and compete from that Center. It is someone with positive, life affirming goals, a dedication to achieve those, and a balanced attitude about results.

So, what is a Peaceful Warrior? Is it an oxymoron? I donРІР‚в„ўtР’В believe so. He competed with himself to achieve highly, even after experiencing a crushing motorcycle accident by which he broke both of his legs not long before a qualifying gymnastics tournament.

As a warrior-athlete-a highly trained and focused gymnastics competitor-MillmanРІР‚в„ўs goal was to be and to perform at the highest level he could. Socrates taught Dan to develop a neutral overview perspective on any situation so as not to be attached to the outcomes or to the results of any action or occurrence. I find it pertinent that MillmanРІР‚в„ўs experience was that of an Olympic oriented athlete he was a gymnast in training when he met his spiritual guide whom he names Socrates in his book. He speaks of a spiritual warrior, a Mystic + Warrior archetypeР’В pairing, at least. The WARRIOR archetype appears to be so out of balance in so many parts of the world and in so many people these days that I want to emphasize that any archetypal part-of-Self acting РІР‚ВaloneРІР‚в„ў is liable to be out of harmony with the Whole meaning both the whole of the Total Self System of a personРІР‚в„ўs archetypal cast, and the Whole of humanity and Life itself.Р”Вan Millman popularized the phrase РІР‚Сљthe Peaceful WarriorРІР‚Сњ in his best-selling book of that title. I want to talk about Peaceful Warriors since I am writing about the Warrior archetype this month.

Peaceful warrior soundtrack