Quotes About Growth

Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you breathe.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

All diseases and disorders have some spiritual connection and serve as stepping stones for us to listen to and learn from.

The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself - consciously.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

Physical exercise is indispensable to the development of body, and quite as certainly is spiritual activity requisite to the healthful and normal development of the soul.

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.

After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consciousness.

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for spiritual evolution.