Quotes About Growth

Satsang is a community of truth seekers. It is a group of people with the shared awareness that there is a spiritual dimension to the universe. Goethe had this beautiful thought: "The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into the world of spirit."—Bhagavad Gita

In all spiritual practice, the strategy is the same: to identify the thing that frightens you and come as close to it as you can before you freak out.

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

What often happens when we face this stripping away of our models is that we will give up this and that, and instead grab onto that and this. It's too uncomfortable not to have anything to cling to, and so we substitute a new set of attachments for the old ones.

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

When you get to those edges where you say, "I can't handle that" or "I'm not going to do that," take a look at the mindset you are holding onto. There is the root of your suffering. That's where your mind is in relation to what is.

Rumi, the Persian mystic: "I died as stone, and rose again as plant. I died as plant, and became an animal. I died as animal, and was born a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more shall I die as man, to soar with the angels. But even from angelhood, I must pass on. For all is change, except the face of God.

The caterpillar does not become a flying caterpillar; it morphs into a butterfly.

The more conscious that a being becomes, the more he can use any occupation as a vehicle for spreading light.

He had no idea what a Ram Dass was, but he was open to learning.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Shallow books make shallow men.)

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts." —George Müller

Learning requires curiosity, exploration, evaluation, and dialogue. To be granted the product of knowledge without this process would violate what it means to be a creature.

Looking back," Ruby said, "I wonder why I was so afraid to grow old. Every day brought me one day closer to being here with You.

In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child.

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

Failure isn't losing, failure is mediocrity.

Cada uno de nosotros ha venido a la tierra con varias piezas de un puzle tan grande como el universo. Cada vez que conocemos a alguien, se las enseñamos de manera inconsciente para ver si las de esa persona encajan con las nuestras. Si no encajan, cada uno sigue su camino y no hay nada que hacer. Ay, pero si encajan… Ahí es donde empiezan la atracción, el odio, los celos, el amor, el dolor y el aprendizaje.

Live a while in these books, learn from them what seems to you worth learning, but above all, love them.

I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on

The tragedy with growing up is not that we lose childishness in its simplicity, but that we lose childlikeness in its sublimity.