Quotes About Growth

You cannot appreciate your spirituality unless you appreciate your creaturehood. It is not a matter of rising above your nature, but of evolving from the full understanding of it. There is a difference.

How many of you would want to limit your reality, your entire reality, to the experience you now know? You do this when you imagine that your present self is your entire personality, or insist that your identity be maintained unchanged through an endless eternity. (10:43.)

When you are overly concerned with physical matters, and even vital physical matters, you pull yourself in. And more ridiculous, you pull up your roots. A tree would never pull up its roots. I am not speaking now of pulling up your roots in terms of moving from one location to another. I am speaking of something akin to cutting off your roots from any nourishment

I hope that this book will serve to release the deeply intuitive self within each of my readers, and to bring to the foreground of consciousness whatever particular insights will serve you most. As

Starting over — changing one's beliefs, is a bold endeavor.

you must stretch your own imagination, rouse yourself from mental lethargy, and be bold enough to discard old dogmatic comfort blankets.

It is imperative that we move away from the concept of a self as an indivisible, rigid and limited reality.

Above all, we pray that they will make the journey from selfishness to true love. Whether together or single, this is a journey we all have to make. In a sense it is the real journey of life.

All children suffered their parents' worlds. If she had had a child of her own, would she have done any better? " Jane Rule. "Desert of the Heart

The plant succession that had begun in March with snowdrops and early crocuses would soon flicker out in a blaze of orange chrysanthemums and show its last pinpoints of color in bittersweet and ash berries hanging like embers in the general misty brown of the world.

I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.

But now I feel that there was some aspect of fatedness about it. If I was going to do what, perhaps, I am meant to do, what I must do, there were things I had to learn.

What do you do with everything that is cut away? she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life...

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

All around the castle, a briary hedge began to grow, with thorns as sharp as barbs.

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.

I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of saying, Let your characters grow. Up. And good stories for adults are about the Holding of Wisdom. Another way of saying, Recognize you are grown up.

She's gone on that long road into adulthood from which none of us returns.

Leaping and looping with his little striped friends, verdi laughed and said I may be big and very green, but I'm still me!

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes.

There's a difference between having maturity and being mature. I'm not ready to be mature. I don't want to see the AARP magazine in my mailbox.

even though two decades and several years had gone by since [she] first decided to be a fairy, even though Lizabeth Kane now stood five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, even though she was thirty two years old - she still had aspirations of growing up to be a fairy.

Everyone wants to be a better version of themselves," he said. "It's easy for you because you just needed a new jacket. For some other people the job is more complicated.