I am a Yogi and had read Way of the Peaceful Warrior. This is set in the middle of Way of the Peaceful Warrior. I had been looking forward to reading this book. This book is “based on a true story.”

If this book is read entirely for entertainment in the vein of an adventure parable (like Celestine Prophecy) or as a contemplative bridge (the second Lord is the Rings book), this may be more enjoyable.

At its root, this book is about the three selves (a take on the Id , Ego, and SuperEgo) and the chakras. The purpose of the book seems to be to explain these concepts. I was looking for something else.

There are couple of major ideas I took away from this book. However I feel that it's not a read for everyone. You have to read between the lines and see beyond what the mind projects. If not, this book will sound crazy. This book really was a clarification of a cloudy part of the first one.

Pour ceux qui ont lu "Le guerrier pacifique" et qui auraient peur qu'il y ait de redondances, sachez que ce n'est absolument pas le cas. Ce livre autant que le premier apporte des leçons et messages qui sont pour moi autant important.
Ce que j'apprécie le plus je crois c'est que Dan Millman relate une histoire et n'essaye pas de nous convaincre que ces idées sont justes et que tout le monde devrait pensé comme lui. Non, il partage son expérience, ses idées, ses ressentis sans caché les difficultés du chemin parcouru et ce qui reste encore à parcourir. La découverte de Mama Chia et de ses méthodes d'enseignement, ainsi que de l'enseignement en lui-même, nous apporte une vision complémentaire à celle développé avec Socrate.
Pour ceux qui n'ont pas lu "Le guerrier pacifique" je vous le conseil autant que le film, ils ont été des éléments marquants dans ma vie vers des changements subtils mais profond. Il ne s'agit pas de croire tout ce qui est écrit au mot près de comprendre les enseignements portés par Dan Millman.

Bonne lecture

I found it in Kauai's only bookshop. This story of the wisdom of a Kahuna is too true on many levels. I loved the practical and relatable lessons of the inner journey. Thanks Dan! You are an inspiration to mankind. Also watch the movie "Peaceful warriors" if you did not read the book yet to grasp what happened before. But it is not really essential

Although a work of fiction, this book contains plenty of situations in which one should simply let go of expectations, or how to deal with that little saboteur in every human's head.
Judging from a literary stand point, it's probably not the most fluid narrative. There are many things that don't quite seem to make sense.

Fortunately, I started Dan Millman's work with this volume, so there were a lot of things that didn't make sense and sometimes got lost in the narrative. Still, I was simply captivated and wanted more. While reading "Way of the Peaceful Warrior", my mind had an easier, more familiar journey.

Where "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" opened my eyes (and quite widely, on many occasions), this sequel hit me deeper than I'd expected it to. I love this book so much, and the journey the story's hero, Dan Millman's avatar of the same name, takes with the wise guide Mama Chia, has been hard to shake. But that's a good thing, I don't want to shake it, and don't think I can. I was sad to finish this book, but happy to know the story goes even deeper with "The Hidden School."

I first read this book about 10 years ago for the first time. I just read it again a few weeks ago. What the book reveals to you, depends on what you need. It depends on the place you are in your life, what quotes and lines in the book just JUMP out to you. This book is by one of my favorite people, and I have read every book of his. Dan Millman is an amazing motivational speaker, and his books are all thought provoking, and soul stirring.
The premise is simple, but the book has many layers. Socrates reveals and teaches the main character so much, through life events, and experiences that many of us go through, and complain, but we don't pay attention to the lesson. Give it a read, and keep this book. It will be one you read again.

Dan continues his journey, leaving behind a disruptive marriage to seek the center of his soul. The journey takes him to Hawaii to where a kahuna waits to teach him the way of the sacred tower.

Though not as good as his first book, this tale of awakening is well thought out and filled with second hand parables to demonstrate his point along with quotes and pretty allegories it falls short of the first book.

One of those books that helped steer me in the right direction, at the right time.

This book mainly talks about the 3 selves - Basic, Conscious, and Higher. Most of the wisdoms are found in the later part of the book. I found it to be a touching book where everyone is close and help each other like an extended family.

Here’s some takeaways copied from the book:
Just handle what’s in front of you now, and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise you’ll spend most of your life wondering which foot you’ll use to step off the curb when you’re still only halfway to the corner.

Plans are useful, but don’t get attached to them; life has too many surprises. Preparation has value even if the future you planned never comes.

Learn to see life in a different way.

You haven’t learned something until you could do it. I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

Pain and suffering are a part of everyone’s life. They just take different forms.

No one person could ever create a building. No matter how smart, how strong, a single individual may be, he can’t make a building without the combined efforts of architects, contractors, laborers, accountants, manufacturers, truckers, chemists, and hundreds more. No one is smarter than all of us.

Turn your experience into lessons, and your lessons into wisdoms. Trust the process of your life and remember the law of faith.

Faith has little to do with belief. Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

Our lives are like flower. We appear so fragile, and yet, when we meet obstacles, we push through them, always growing toward the Light.

First understand. Understanding without acting does nothing. Yet acting without understanding may create even more problems. Sometimes you need to simply relax into life, and to trust. No matter how pressing life may feel at times. There’s no need to rush, and nowhere to rush to. You have plenty of time to accomplish what you wish.

In the darkest, most chaotics times - when things fall apart - such times often mark quickening as your mind readies itself to make a leap. When you feel like you’re going nowhere, stagnating, even slipping backward - your soul is only backing up to get a running start.

It is simple; just not easy.

Don’t try to manage the addictions; instead, clear the obstructions.

Allow the life energy to flow freely through you. Learn how to use it wisely, choosing where to channel it, celebrating life, but exploiting it.

You created your own experience. You experience exactly what you need. The energies are the same for everyone; the experience is different. Each of us chooses how to respond to and channel our energy. Some hoard it; others squander it. The warrior channels the flow of life energy like a farmer irrigating his crops.

When energy are blocked, they cause pain.

Daily life is your training ground. Spirit gives you everything you need, here and now. You evolve not by seeking to go elsewhere, but by paying attention to, and embracing, what’s in front of you.

Don’t be too hard on yourself. Accept where you are. Trust your Higher Self. It has been calling to you since you were a child. It brought you to people. Accept yourself and just serve. Serve out of duty until you can serve out of love - without attachment to the results.

Complex karma are at work. Each of us plays our role. Each of us is born into life circumstances to challenge us and allow us to evolve.

Act with kindness to the people in your immediate surroundings. Accept the role you hve been given. It is all right for a peaceful warrior to make good money, doing what he or she loves, serving other people. All 3 elements are important. It is all right to hurt, to love, to be happy, in spite of the difficulties of this world.

Find your own balance. Do what you can, but take time to laugh and enjoy life. Yet, at the same time, your lifestyle naturally changes. Your needs simplify your priorities - how you spend your time and money and energy - all change.

The first step to change is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the patterns in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in God’s hands, not yours.

There are some things one must accept. All the positive thinking in the world will not grow back a missing leg.

When you are ill, you can conquer the illness - to commit all your time, energy and will to healing - or, accept on the deepest level that you are going to die, surrender, make peace with the world, take care of business, and somehow use it for his evolution.

Some people were healed when they completely surrender to death.

There are no garantee in this life. We live the best way we know how.

Sometimes, the best way to win a fight is to lose it.

There is nothing you’re supposed to do. If you want peace of mind, resign as a general manager of the universe.

Relax and stop trying to figure everything out. You don’t have to know everything about the ocean to swim in it.

Change has to come from inside you - like a flower from its seed - you can’t rush it. We don’t control the timetable.

Gratitude opens the heart.

An important part of self-defense is knowing when not to defend the self.

The treasure is inside you - as close as your heart.

We have no control in this life - no ability to stop the waves that come crshing down. We can only learn to surf those waves, embracing whatever comes and using it to grow. Accepting ourselves, our strengths and weaknesses, our foolishness and our love. Accepting everything. Doing what we can, and flowing with the rest.

We cannot always do great things in life, but we can do small things with great love.

Everything is a dream within a dream. We make our own meaning. It’s all right. Everything will be all right.

Try to be a little kinder.

Little things make a big difference.

Open the eyes of your heart and you would be able to feel the love and support of Spirit.

Spirit would carry us all, inexorably, toward the Light.

The quality of our lives is shaped by what we do, moment to moment - by each choice we make and each action we take.

Good read!


Good book! It was fun to read or listen to. I like that the kindle app has a narrative button because sometimes I get tired of reading. It was good overall and she setting as nice.

This book needs to be read in the order that Dan writes “The way of the peaceful warrior series. I have really enjoyed reading the books. Each one was an awakening experience, oddly enough as I read past chapter one, the events that take place in the book could be applied in my own life events. It actually tripped me out a bit. I liked it as it was erie as well. Ones mind need to be open to truly receive this book I. The way it’s meant to be absorbed. It most definitely a life changer. I suggest this book for anyone who enjoys enlightenment.