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Quotes About Adaptation

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.
~ Rumi
Things are always different from what they might be.
~ Henry James
"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
~ Anthony de Mello
Don't try to steer the river.
~ Deepak Chopra
Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.
~ Zicheng Hong
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
~ Euripides
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.
~ Maria Montessori
In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.
~ Thomas Yellowtail
Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.
~ Angus MacLean
Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.
~ Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.
~ Frederick Lenz
If you are not able to 'adjust everywhere', then even the moksha, that you have in your hand, will go away.
~ Dada Bhagwan
In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work without adjusting?
~ Dada Bhagwan
We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has 'adjusted everywhere'.
~ Dada Bhagwan
In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment.
~ Dada Bhagwan
The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness.
~ Nikki Rowe
The person who knows how to adjust to others, he will not have any suffering. 'Adjust everywhere'.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.
~ Luanne Castle, Doll God
Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
~ Marianne Williamson