Quotes About Growth

When you are ready, guidance will come. Rely on the people who are in your life now; face your dark energies as honestly as you can; respect your boundaries and those of everyone around you. As you peel back each layer of the onion, the teacher who can lead you on will show up, almost miraculously matching the very moment when guidance is needed.

You won't know what your brain can do until you test its limits and push beyond them. No matter how inefficiently you are using your brain, one thing is certain: it is the gateway to your future. Your success in life depends on your brain, for the simple reason that all experience comes to us through our brains.

In our everyday lives, if we intentionally set out to learn new things or do familiar things in new ways (such as commuting to work via a new route or taking the bus instead of a car), we effectively rewire our brains and improve them. A physical workout builds muscle; a mental workout creates new synapses to strengthen the neural network.

Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager, a self conscious young adult) who no longer exists.

What has to die in your life for what you are creating to be born?

Suffering contains a hidden spiritual message. It exists until the message is heard.

Your pain is the key to your healing.

But it is your self that must constantly be transforming. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

Clinging to old behavior is not an option. Being: Cells obey the universal cycle of rest

The more conscious you become, the more you come into balance. Once balanced, you can choose to reject destruction; your awareness expands beyond the immediate hurt to see that evolution is eternal and therefore eternally possible.

We are placed here in this world to manage a project that is equivalent to building a new universe every day. Creating yourself is not just a full-time job, it is a staggering one.

Mature spirituality requires sobriety of awareness.

With practice, you will find that not resisting holds the secret to many spiritual experiences, including the ability to love.

Success comes from any and all directions.

Your soul sees no missed opportunities. In reality every road you traveled offered up an experience as a gift, and as the complex fabric of life wove itself, each experience added to your growth.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

todo aquello a lo que prestas atención, crece.

Las consecuencias de tu vida dependen de cómo te enfrentas a sus momentos más oscuros.

When you are inhabiting a self that is fixed and set in place, you may think that you have attained something positive. As people say, "Now I know who I am." What they really know is an imitation of a real self, a collection of habits, labels, and preferences that is entirely historical.

The fire of passion burns out eventually. Then you dig through the ashes and discover a gem. You pick it up; you look at it with disbelief. The gem was inside you all the time. It is yours to keep forever. It is buddha.

Myrtle can't grow in the shade. It would wither and die. Someone has made it grow in the dark." "How?" "Magic. How else?" Alcibiades shrugged, and Socrates said, "How else? That's a serious question. If you don't believe in magic, how did this sprig grow here? Perhaps the gods wanted it to. If so, they may have left it for us as a sign." "What kind of sign?" "An omen.

Each repetition pales by degrees because, when you return to what you already know, it can't be experienced for the first time.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple; no one can count the apples in a seed.

This is not the kind of knowledge you learn; it is the kind you become.