Millman finally figures out that everything he thought made him happy was false. Having just come of the best bar routine of his life, instead of being exuberant with happiness, his world is crumbling to pieces around him.

This is shown when Millman says, “I was no happier, no more fulfilled, for all my achievements” (Millman 155). Millman realized all of his awards didn’t in fact bring him real happiness as it did not come with the emotion attributed with true happiness. This is true of Millman himself before the realization he come to make in the quote above. People believe happiness comes from winning awards and buying items. This “illusion” is true for majority of the world, including myself before reading the book, as people aren’t aware of the true meaning of happiness. This first shows that Millman realizes the “illusion” he has before is the old reality and way he saw the world rather than what Socrates had taught him. This quote is pivotal in the journey he takes to finding happiness.

All my life I had been busy seeking happiness, not finding it” (Millman 155). I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. I was no happier, no more fulfilled, for all my achievements…. He sets out to find the true meaning of happiness displayed by when he says, “All these years I had been sustained by an illusion – happiness through victory – and now that illusion was burned to ashes. In Dan Millman’s The Way of the Peaceful Warrior Millman embarks on a journey to find “unreasonable happiness”.

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