Quotes About Growth

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper.

So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency.

Every challenge that it contains is actually a disguised opportunity for salvation.

All life forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve.

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A medida que uno crece, va formándose una imagen mental de sí mismo basada en su condicionamiento personal y cultural. A este yo fantasma lo llamamos ego.

The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness.

The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can then no longer survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not weakness. There is great strength in it.

But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

Ten years ago, A New Earth was first published. Since that time, the book has been read in forty-four languages by countless people all over the world. The in-depth webinar I did with Oprah Winfrey, during which we explored the main themes of the book, has been watched thirty-five million times. So the question naturally arises: Ten years later—where are we? Is a "new earth

I feel that the book has taken on a life and momentum of its own.

When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

If you think you are so enlightened," Ram Dass said, "go and spend a week with your parents.

So, whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware at that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens, your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

When a log that has only just started to burn is placed next to one that is burning fiercely, and after a while they are separated again, the first log will be burning with much greater intensity. After all, it is the same fire. To be such a fire is one of the functions of a spiritual teacher.

But if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.

Surrender does not transform what is, at least not directly. Surrender transforms you. When you are transformed, your whole world is transformed, because the world is only a reflection. We spoke about this earlier.

People with heavy pain-bodies usually have a better chance to awaken spiritually than those with a relatively light one.

First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over.

El propósito externo pertenece a la dimensión horizontal del espacio y el tiempo; el propósito interno concierne a una profundización de su Ser en la dimensión vertical del Ahora sin tiempo.

All life-forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve. In the case of the ego, most of the challenges it encounters are self-created through its unconscious patterns. Eventually, the ego brings about its own demise.

There is an Eastern saying: "The teacher and the taught together create the teaching.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating fundamentally the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

What could be more heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat and pressure, turn into diamonds, and some heavy minerals into other precious stones.