Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gegNMYvY_yg

Full Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5w3_7j65Kc

Film director: Victor Salva

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What are the Olympic Games?

Would you like to break a record?

Can you think of extreme situations in the movie?

Can you imagine yourself in Dan' s situation?

How did the movie end? Would you like to change the end? What would you do?

The concept of living in the moment is the idea that we have to let go of the past and the future and to live in the only moment that we truly have - this one.

Socrates: Where are you?

Dan Millman: Here.
Socrates: What time is it?
Dan Millman: Now.
Socrates: What are you?
Dan Millman: This moment.

1) Socrates says he's completely happy, and challenges Dan by asking if he is. Is happiness the most important thing? How important is your own happiness in deciding what to do in life?

2) When a beggar asks Dan for change, he refuses to give any. Is that the correct or ethical response to social or political issues?

3) Socrates says his way of life is the right one. Might other people do better living differently, or is the way of the peaceful warrior the ideal for every single person?

4) What is the role of relationships—romantic, familial, friendly—in human life, according to Socrates? Does he give the topic proper consideration?

Peaceful Warrior is drama film (2006) that is based on the novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman a former world champion athlete, who journeys into realms of romance and magic, light and darkness, body, mind, and spirit.

It is story of Dan Millman played by Scott Mechlowicz, and his struggle to make sense of his life in which he is successful but still unfulfilled.

He meets a spiritual guide, an old man who works on petrol station with different approach to life and how to focus on here and now. Dan call him Socrates. He teaches Dan how to be real, peaceful, warrior, on the path of life which is more important than goal.

One important message is :"Stop gathering informations from outside, go inside, where you will find all what you need."

It is worthy to read the book on which is film based - it can change a life.

Lessons Learned from The Peaceful Warrior

Here are the ones that struck a special “ah-ha” in me:

1. There are no ordinary moments
2. A Warrior acts; only a fool reacts.
3. What do you do if you can’t do what you were born to do?  Everything has a purpose — it’s up to you to find it.
4. Make every move about the move — that one moment in time.
5. Don’t fall into the trap — If only I had this, I’d be …  If only … I’d get to be happy.
6. If you don’t get what you want, you suffer.  If you get what you want, you still suffer.
7. You control you.  Master you.
8. Don’t pin your success on outcomes.
9. The people that are the hardest to love, probably need it the most.
10. Take out the trash.  Clear you mind of everything you don’t need (doubt, past failures, future victories, … etc.)
11. Develop the wisdom to use the right leverage at the right time.
12. Knowledge is not the same as wisdom.  Knowledge is knowing — wisdom is doing.
13. You’ll never be better than anybody, the same way you’ll never be any less.

Here are my additional lessons from Peaceful Warrior:

1. Experience the moment.  Be fully engaged in the moment.
2. Limiting beliefs.  Don’t become a victim of your own limiting beliefs.  Stay adaptable.
3. Don’t miss out on what’s going on by letting your mind fill up with noise.
4. Trash is anything that keeps you from the only thing that matters which is right here and now.
5. Be right here, right now.  Don’t be in the past, gloating.  Be in the present, living.
6. All you have is right now.
7. Let go of attachments.
8. Meditate.  Master the ability to clear you mind and focus on the moment.
9. Don’t let your emotions control you.
10. Enjoy the here and now — that’s the secret.
11. Savor the moment.
12. Other people’s perspectives don’t matter as much if you have your own perspective.
13. Find your purpose.
14. Assign meaning.  You’re the most important meaning maker in your life.
15. There’s never nothing going on (take a look around.)
16. Don’t give up the one thing you control — your response.
17. The habit is the problem.  Wake up and experience the moment.
18. Be conscious of your choices.
19. Be responsible for your actions.
20. Every action has its price and it’s pleasure.
21. Most people don’t live at all.
22. When you feel fear, use this sword.
23. Don’t take for granted what you can do; don’t be sloppy with your life.
24. Devote life to a higher purpose: service to others.
25. The warrior doesn’t give up what they love.
26. The warrior finds the love in what they do.
27. The warrior is not about invincibility.
28. The warrior chooses to act; the coward reacts.
29. Life isn’t about 20 seconds in front of the judges.
30. A warrior does what they love.  A warrior does the thing they are put here to do.
31. Don’t live in fear of failure.
32. It’s the journey, not the destination.
33. Being a warrior is not about perfection.  Being a warrior is about absolute vulnerability.
34. Life is about choice.
35. Actions speak for themselves.

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