The Peaceful Warrior: (Movie) Coming Soon
Dan Millman’s bestselling novel The Way of the Peaceful Warrior — which I’ve never read, but just ordered — is coming to the big screen on June 2nd.
The preview looks quite good. A few quotes:
“A warrior does not give up what he loves. He finds the love in what he does.”
“Throw out everything you don’t need in here [points to head] that keeps you from this moment. You’ll be amazed what you can do.”
“I call myself a peaceful warrior. Because the battles we fight are on the inside.”
“This moment is the only thing that matters.”
From the review at Amazon:
During his junior year at the University of California, Dan Millman first stumbled upon his mentor (nicknamed Socrates) at an all-night gas station. At the time, Millman hoped to become a world-champion gymnast.
“To survive the lessons ahead, you’re going to need far more energy than ever before,” Socrates warned him that night. “You must cleanse your body of tension, free your mind of stagnant knowledge, and open your heart to the energy of true emotion.”
From there, the unpredictable Socrates proceeded to teach Millman the “way of the peaceful warrior.” At first Socrates shattered every preconceived notion that Millman had about academics, athletics, and achievement.
But eventually Millman stopped resisting the lessons, and began to try on a whole new ideology — one that valued being conscious over being smart, and strength in spirit over strength in body.
Although the character of the cigarette-smoking Socrates seems like a fictional, modern-day Merlin, Millman asserts that he is based on an actual person.
Certain male readers especially appreciate the coming-of-age theme, the haunting love story with the elusive woman Joy, and the challenging of Western beliefs about masculine power and success.
Sounds like compelling stuff. 
