Quotes About Growth

The most dominant need that any child has is to gradually move from the complete environmental support of infancy and childhood to the self-support of maturity.

Healthy shame keeps us grounded. It is a yellow light, warning us of our essential limitations. Healthy shame is the basic metaphysical boundary for human beings. It is the emotional energy that signals us that we are not God—that we will make mistakes, that we need help. Healthy shame gives us permission to be human.

Teach your inner child to check things out. Give him permission to ask lots of questions.

We humans are finite, "perfectly imperfect." Limitation is our essential nature. Grave problems result from refusing to accept our limits. Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

Looking at Yourself Through the Eyes of Your Higher Power

we are spiritual beings who need an earthly journey to become fully spiritual.

The Couples Journey

The first decision adult children who want to grow up need to make is to surrender.

Reframing my life with my wonder child helped me to see that everything in my childhood prepared me for what I'm doing now. The purpose I found in my meditation was that I am here to be myself and to proclaim my human freedom and to help others do the same.

With change history you use the potency of your adult experiences to change the internal imprints from the past.

We must risk reaching out and looking for nonshaming relationships if we are to heal our shame. There is no other way.

To be committed to life as growth and overcoming is to be willing to accept suffering and risk pain.

Many fairy tales are symbolic statements about finding our male or female identity. When the developmental process is running smoothly, we eventually outgrow our inner child's literal understanding of these stories and come to grasp their symbolic significance. But

Infants who are not touched and interacted with die of a kind of stroke deprivation called "mirasmus." Marcel Geber, who went on a United Nations commission to study protein deficiency in Ugandan children, found their infants and toddlers to be the most advanced children in the world. It seems that the infants were continually held by the Ugandan mothers. Their bodies were in continuous contact and movement.

Only in the life of dialogue and community can we truly live and grow.

We are not material beings on a spiritual journey; we are spiritual beings who need an earthly journey to become fully spiritual.

Our healthy shame is nourishing in that it moves us to seek new information and learn new things. Inferiority can be experienced as a healthy limit to our abilities.

The French novelist Léon Bloy once said, "There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; pain must be in order for them to be.

Every aspect of life is an experiment that can be better understood if it is perceived in that way.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. 

The new convert is tested to see if the words he professes are justified with corresponding fruit in his life. Christian's

Aquele que já está no chão não precisa de cair; Aquele que desceu ao mais baixo não precisa de ter orgulho.