Book 1, Chapters 1-3 Summary

On his honeymoon in 1967, Dan Millman feels he has forgotten something important. By 1972, while teaching at Oberlin, his marriage falls apart, and he flies to India, hoping to rediscover his "transcendent sense of freedom," but he feels like a spiritual outsider. Laying over in Hawaii, he remembers the woman shaman/banker that his teacher Socrates once predicts he will meet. Dan takes out an ad in the personals and visits 18 banks. Outside one bank, Ruth Johnson asks if he is all right, invites him home, and uses Socrates' phrase, "Create a nice day." At Ruth's house Dan finds a party in progress and leaves, but finds Ruth has slipped him his ad and directions to to go to Makapuu Beach. It seems like the old days.

Book 1, Chapters 1-3 Analysis

Book 1, "Where Spirit Leads," has Dan Millman explaining why...