Quotes About Development

Setting omnibuses on rails increased the number of passengers that horses could haul and improved the ride. In 1856, when New York City's Common Council judged street-level steam locomotives to be dangerous and barred them below Forty-Second Street, horse-drawn street railways replaced them.

The real change away from horse-drawn transportation came with the advent in the late 1880s of the electric streetcar. Frank Julian Sprague, a West Point–trained electrical engineer, installed the first commercial electric streetcar system in Richmond, Virginia, in 1887.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.

We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right.

One has to wonder, do we really want people to grow, or do we just want to be in control of the moment?

Frankly, Jesus came to show us how to be human much more than how to be spiritual, and the process still seems to be in its early stages.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

You normally have to let go of the old and go through a stage of unknowing or confusion, before you can move to another level of awareness or new capacity.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.

Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.

New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

If people are to develop any deep spirituality today, and especially if men are to develop spiritually, they need to be liberated from self-serving worldviews.

In many ways what we're seeing as we explore the Bible is an observing of the development of human consciousness and human readiness for God. That's why we do see some difference between the earlier and later Scriptures: There's been a development in consciousness. In

working hypothesis, can move forward with theory, while

Higher stages always empathetically include the lower, or they are not higher stages!

First-half-of-life religion is almost always about various types of purity codes or "thou shalt nots" to keep us up, clear, clean, and together, like good Boy and Girl Scouts. A certain kind of "purity" and self-discipline is also "behovely," at least for a while in the first half of life, as the Jewish Torah brilliantly presents.

humans tend to live themselves into new ways of thinking more than think themselves into new ways of living.

How you get there is where you arrive.

One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. —CARL JUNG, THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE PSYCHE

Three steps forward, two steps back.