Quotes About Growth

You have a name, a past, a life situation, a future. But in one essential respect, you are not the same person you were before

También espero que llegue a otros muchos que encuentren su contenido digno de consideración, aunque puedan no estar listos para vivirlo o practicarlo plenamente. Es posible que en el futuro, la semilla que se sembró al leer este libro se fusione con la semilla de la iluminación que todo ser humano lleva dentro, y súbitamente esta semilla brote y se haga viva dentro de ellos.

El que enseña y el enseñado crean la enseñanza juntos".

Siempre que se dé cuenta de que ha surgido alguna forma de negatividad en usted, mírela no como un fracaso sino como una señal útil que le dice: Despierta. Sal de la mente. Vive el presente

Every addiction reaches a point where it does not work for you anymore, and then you feel the pain more intensely than ever.

Will you become less when you let go of it?

Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, obsession with things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease.

Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

una persona ya inconsciente tiende a volverse más profundamente inconsciente y una persona consciente más intensamente consciente. Usted puede utilizar un reto para despertar, o puede permitir que lo empuje a un sueño aún más profundo. El sueño de la inconsciencia ordinaria se convierte entonces en una pesadilla.

The ego's unconscious core feeling of "not enough" causes it to react to someone else's success as if that success had taken something away from "me." It doesn't know that your resentment of another person's success curtails your own chances of success. In order to attract success, you need to welcome it wherever you see it.

When you are seemingly diminished in some way and remain in absolute nonreaction, not just externally but also internally, you realize that nothing real has been diminished, that through becoming less, you become more. When you no longer defend or attempt to strengthen the form of yourself, you step out of identification with form, with mental self-image.

I]t is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

If you think you are so enlightened, Ram Dass said, go and spend a week with your parents. That is good advice. The relationship with your parents is not only the premordial relationship that sets the tone for all subsequent relationships, it is also a good test for your degree of Presence. The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise you will be forced to relive the past again and again.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep.

Il viaggio esteriore può contenere milioni di passi, il viaggio interiore ne ha uno solo, il passo che compi adesso.

if mental development and increased knowledge are not counterbalanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness, the potential for unhappiness and disaster is very great.

The moment you become aware of a negative state within yourself, it does not mean you have failed. It means that you have succeeded. Until that awareness happens, there is identification with inner states, and such identification is ego.

know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

Most crawling reptilians, the most earthbound of all creatures, have remained unchanged for millions of years. Some, however, grew feathers and wings and turned into birds, thus defying the force of gravity that had held them for so long. They didn't become better at crawling or walking, but transcended crawling and walking entirely.

To see one's predicament clearly is a first step toward going beyond it.

Many people still live like that, like sleepwalkers, trapped in old dysfunctional mind-sets that continuously re-create the same nightmarish reality

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.