Quotes About Growth

True maturation on the spiritual path requires that we discover the depth of our wounds. As Achaan Chah put it, "If you haven't cried a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun." A

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

Plant your seed of trust. It will grow in its season.

It is not enough to touch awakening. We must find ways to live its vision fully.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

To live with great wisdom and compassion is possible for anyone who genuinely undertakes a training of their heart and mind. What better thing to do with our life?

Do not ignore the effect of each wise action saying, "This will come to nothing." Just as by the gradual fall of raindrops the water jar is filled, so in time the wise become replete with good. Dhammapada

If you hold on to any expectation, you miss the wisdom. It is impermanent. Be the One Who Knows, the witness to it all. This is how trust grows." And it is how love grows as well. Trust and love are the keys.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

He has made enormous progress – backward.

The vast majority of us are far more capable than we realize. We grow up with parents, teachers, bosses all telling us what we can't do. Don't touch it; you'll break it. They mean well, but they leave us with a sense of our own incapacity. When the day comes, if it comes, that you begin to believe in yourself, the world will be yours. —Mara

The vast majority of us are far more capable than we realize. We grow up with parents, teachers, bosses all telling us what we can't do. Don't touch it; you'll break it. They mean well, but they leave us with a sense of our own incapacity. When the day comes, if it comes, that you begin to believe in yourself, the world will be yours.

Can a literary character be said to live a life from birth to death or otherwise to undergo a development from beginning to end? Or is a literary character-fixed on the pages of a book, trapped forever in the same few words and actions-the very opposite of a living, developing human being?

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Focus on remedies, not faults

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.

Growth stationery from "X. Drew Butler," advising the mayor of Airway Heights to prepare for major expansion

significant effect on the behavioral and intellectual development of their children." —Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley, Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.