Quotes About Growth

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.'" Saying

Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Wisdom is doing it.

As most of us have intuitively learned, sexuality best serves our spiritual evolution within a single, committed relationship.

Live according to your highest light and more light will be given

In so doing, it's important to place responsibility where it truly belongs by acknowledging that: You aren't responsible for what your parents did to you, they are. You are responsible for what you do with your life now, your parents aren't.

But, Dad…" She hesitated. "It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that." Sol managed a smile. "No parent would refuse that, Rachel.

There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one's sense of what is real.

Children bring chaos and clutter and an infinite potential for the future

Few events in a human being's life—at least a male human being's life—are as free, as exuberant, as infinitely expansive and filled with potential as the first day of summer when one is an eleven-year-old boy. The summer lies ahead like a great banquet and the days are filled with rich, slow time in which to enjoy each course.

that strange elasticity of the human heart in finding new relationships, new people to share one's life with, new potentials.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity." "Empathy," Aenea said softly.

Mis primeros poemas eran lamentables. Como la mayoría de los malos poetas, yo no me daba cuenta de ello, seguro en mi arrogancia de que el simple acto de crear daba cierto valor a los indignos abortos que alumbraba.

I can tolerate anything, in dog or man, save for the refusal or inability to learn.

emptiness is a good sign; that it presages openness to a new level of awareness, new insights, new experiences.

Womangrove root and firefern lined the banks, and each branch and twisting

During this time I quit attending classes at the university, and my grades rose from four Fs to three Bs and an A.

It's wonderful to preserve tradition, but a healthy organism evolves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ culturally and physically.

America was a nation that refused to grow up. It was a perpetual baby, a vast, pink, fleshy toddler, now in possession of some terrible weapons it did not know how to hold properly, much less use properly.

Only humankind struggles and fails in becoming what it is. The reasons are many and complex, but all stem from the fact that we have evolved as one of the self-seeing organs of the evolving universe. Can the eye see itself?

Even places of power are useless unless you're prepared to bring something to them. And I don't mean just the things we brought—they're to the real sacrament what the lump of bread is to the Eucharist. Then, if you come away the same person you were, you know it wasn't really a place of power.

Being born again doesn't mean that you've arrived somewhere, said Dave. It means you're ready to start the trip. The pilgrimage to more places of power, the doomed quest to keep the people and things you love from being caught by the weeds and dragged under.

You've had your chance, Richard. Scott's a big boy now, and if he wants to spend a few years chanting mantras and giving away his lunch money to some bearded horse's ass with a Jehovah Complex, well, you've had your chance to help him, so what do you say you just get on with your screwed-up life, Richard E. Baedecker

Death, she decides early, is simple. One dies and makes the grass and flowers grow. Everything else is a crock of shit.

Time sure kicks the shit out of people...