Quotes About Growth

Most people don't learn things along the way. Or if they do, they conveniently forget those things when it suits their need. Most people, given a second chance, fuck it up completely. It's one of those laws of the universe that you can't shake. People, I have noticed, only seem to learn once they get their third chance—after losing and wasting vast sums of time, money, youth, and energy—you name it. But still they learn, which is the better thing in the end.

Douglas L. Wilson

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Lead me into all misfortune. Only by that path can I transform the negative into the positive.

perfection was not only impossible, but the enemy of success. The real key was flexibility in the face of the unexpected, or, as someone once said, the "known unknowns.

I had a botfly bite once, on my forehead. Felt like a mosquito at first. It began to swell and turn red. Hurt like the devil. A month later it erupted, and inch-long botfly maggots started squirming out and dropping to the ground.

Don't live in the past—you will know what you've lost but not what you've found?

they develop slowly, beneath the surface—like a subcutaneous abscess.

We learn, often through painful self-discipline and self-cauterization, those qualities which are supposed to be 'innate' in us: patience, self-sacrifice, the willingness to repeat endlessly the small, routine chores of socializing a human being.

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.

Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you're willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.

Questioner: What's the best thing I can do for my awakening? Adyashanti: Be with an enlightened teacher and listen.

Looking at personal issues is like pulling just the top of the weeds out of your lawn: they pop right back up. You may have some relief from the trouble of the day, but the root is still there, totally untouched. But having experiences, even if they clear up problems or offer beautiful insights, is very different than finding the root of who you are. If you don't get to the root, you just get another weed.

O que quer que você evite na vida irá retornar, repetidamente, até que esteja disposto a encarar isso, a olhar com profundidade para a sua verdadeira natureza.

In meditation you are not trying to change your experience; you are changing your relationship to your experience.

The beginning of the spiritual journey is what I call "life after awakening.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Wisdom comes through suffering.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

He who learns must suffer And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Wisdom comes only through suffering.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.