Quotes About Progress

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.

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.

Your physical energy is also subject to cycles. It cannot always be at a peak. There will be times of low as well as high energy. There will be periods when you are highly active and creative, but there may also be times when everything seems stagnant, when it seems that you are not getting anywhere, not achieving anything.

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

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

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.

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

El viaje de su vida tiene un propósito externo y otro interno. El propósito externo es llegar a su meta o destino, lograr lo que decide hacer, alcanzar esto o aquello, lo que por supuesto, implica futuro.

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.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you're taking this moment.

El fracaso se esconde en cada éxito y el éxito en cada fracaso.

Sanctification is more about the direction than the distance we have traveled.

Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to progress. Going backward is not the way to go forward.

The twenty-first century is a key century for us on this planet. Either we make a world, where all seven billion people have a fair chance in this century - or forget it. If we can't do this, I don't think we are going to make it as a species. Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to progress. Going backward is not the way to go forward.

How easily men could make things much better than they are – if they only all tried together!' Winston Churchill, 1909

And so he learned to read. From then on his progress was rapid.

P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.

What they accomplished, Alice, with instruments and weapons of stone and bone, surely that may we accomplish also.

THREE days crawled slowly out of the east and followed one another across the steaming jungle and over the edge of the world beyond.

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