Quotes About Growth

You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.

People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.

It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others.

If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then that will happen to you.

To become more aware, it is necessary to do something that you haven't done. Everything that you have done will only make you as aware as you are now.

There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is a pathway that leads to enlightenment.

There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes as liberation.

You will have to put aside some things in your life, habits, ideas, ways of seeing life. You will have to learn new things, and then new things and then new things - forever.

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from simply leading a physical life.

On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.

We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.