Quotes About Growth

Investing a half hour a day in reading, seven days a week, 365 days a year, is a habit that will bring more value to you and your leadership strength than any other investment of your time. It doesn't have to be books, and if it is, don't brag about how many you've read. Just search for the new ideas, new insights, and new pieces of information.

No matter how successful it has made you, your past experience won't ensure success in this new world.

Recent research suggests that "quality of management" is becoming an increasingly important factor in investor decisions. This may be because investors believe that a company that has a strong and predictable leadership pipeline is more likely to be able to generate sustained earnings growth. For this reason, a company's "leadership brand" can be a very valuable asset in today's investment community.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I'm free.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself. Rather, you are penetrating the layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

In the course of your journey it is most likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of

All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall."—Vivekananda

A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.

It's very hard to grow because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develop appreciation.

My Guru, Maharaj-ji, once told me, "Enjoy everything!" These days I try to simply love everything that comes my way, whether animate or inanimate, pleasant or painful. I hope you too can learn to absorb life's ecstasies and distresses into your spiritual practice so they are just more grist for the mill.

The art of spiritual growth has to do with how quickly you recognize attachments and how quickly you can release them.