Quotes About Growth

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.

The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

The book you don't read won't help.

You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

Unless you are fulfilling your spiritual mission (and this is my opinion totally), you anaesthetize yourself or you wound yourself.

Would you rather be right or free?

I love to see people win. You can literally see a person change through achievement on this emotional and spiritual level.

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

Learn your lessons quickly and move on.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

As you train your mind, shockingly it brings you prosperity as well as the faculty to maintain it.

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.