Quotes About Growth

It's wonderful what becomes possible when we start to accept ourselves," he told me. "Others find it easier to accept us, too, when we don't keep engaging in negative thoughts about ourselves.

how to deal with problems in life. They are never asked for, but how we deal with them defines our future happiness or unhappiness.

The mind is like a garden," he told me. "You choose what to grow: weeds or flowers.

also reflected on His Holiness's advice about how to deal with problems in life. They are never asked for, but how we deal with them defines our future happiness or unhappiness.

The problem," observed a tall Indian man sitting next to Serena, "is that we get stuck in our comfort zone, even when it isn't very comfortable.

Fourth: no swamp, no lotus. The most transcendent of flowers grows out of the filth of the swamp. Suffering is like the swamp. If it makes us more humble, more able to sympathize with others and more open to them, then we become capable of transformation and of becoming truly beautiful, like the lotus.

Even ordinary people like us, we also need the tools for transformation.

When our understanding of an idea develops to the point that it changes our behavior.

Even when circumstances turn for the very worst," continued his visitor, "we can still find fresh opportunities.

My dear, your intuition may very well be right." He met her eyes directly. "But perhaps you have to allow things to unfold of their own accord. You can't force a rosebud to open by plucking at its petals. Sometimes, you must wait for nature to take its course, for the other person to see reality for himself.

It is pointless to feel bad about something in the past that we can't change. But regret? Yes. This is more useful.

thinking about the past, especially going over bad things that have happened in our minds again and again, serves no purpose.

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in fact the only thing that really matters is inner transformation.

Wisdom is what happens when our understanding of a thing deepens to the point that it changes our behaviour.

All of us have to start somewhere. Where you start is unimportant. What matters is where you finish.

We can turn our suffering into the cause of extraordinary growth.

Lotus plants grow in poor conditions. Their roots are in the mud, sometimes dirty swamps. But they rise above that. Their flowers are very beautiful. Sometimes when we have problems we, too, can use our difficulties to create something we may not even have considered before. We can turn our suffering into the cause of extraordinary growth.

when I meet people—business leaders, entertainers, and others—they tell me that what seemed to be the worst thing that could ever happen to them turned out, with the benefit of hindsight, to be the very best.

Change our mind, and we change our experience.

What seems devastating at the time can turn out to be a new beginning, a different chapter.

the act of imagining how an ideal self might be is the start of its manifestation.

Suppression is never a permanent fix.

Don't try to avoid tightness by getting into a compromised posture; instead breathe through it! Not with force but with wisdom. Use your breath to create openness. Breath by breath, subtle change is possible. Each breath is a step to transformation.