Quotes about Personal Growth

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

One must educate oneself

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us." And

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —LEO TOLSTOY

Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.

The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth.

Many others do not make this transition so seamlessly: they become enamored of the observing self that beginning meditation empowers and use that capacity for self-observation as a way to avoid personal responsibility. They observe their own pain, but not their contribution to its making.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you in a place like this, and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No one is educated who cannot educate himself.

To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

The pain was necessary to know the truth, but we don't have to keep the pain alive to keep the truth alive.

Not surprisingly, like most people, in the first half of my life, I worked very hard to understand and strengthen my uniqueness.

When those who know are able to show, those who learn are able to grow.

Take life one day at a time, and make each day better than the last.

All leadership begins with self-mastery. You can't lead others until you can first lead yourself.

If any "white supremacist" were really a "supremacist", he wouldn't be living in his mom's basement.

Uno y otro deben estar aprendiendo hasta

Nadie es adulto por disfrazarse de adulto. Ni disfrazarse de joven hace joven a nadie. Es evidente que a muchas personas se les hace cuesta arriba aceptar las etapas de su vida con sus realidades concretas.

This shift from automatic living to awakening parallels Carl Jung's Individuation, Dada Bhagwan's Self-realization, Dr. Abraham Mazlow's Self-Actualization, G.I. Gurdjieff's Self-Work and other related approaches to differentiating the innate being from the unconscious complexes we have mistaken for identity.

I learned to recognize failure.

I was cured alright.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

As one man said, I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it. That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.