Quotes About Development

If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books.

Now when something is growing very very slowly, it is almost impossible to notice it happening.

Your head SHRINKS into your neck… "And your neck SHRINKS into your body… "And your body SHRINKS into your legs… "And your legs SHRINK into your feet. And in the end there's nothing left except a pair of shoes and a bundle of old clothes.

slow at first … just a very gradual inching upwards … up, up, up … inch by inch … getting taller and taller … about an inch every few

To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward. When they're at F, God calls them to G. When we're at L, God calls us to M. And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.

People aren't static; they're dynamic—endlessly complex and capable of tremendous surprise and change.

When you create space for another to thrive, it always unleashes new energies.

Your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress. Knowing your ikigai, then, takes patience and insight, and courage, and honesty.

It is your responsibility to stop listening to voices that hinder your ongoing growth and maturity.

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

Robert A. Heinlein

If I've reached the place where I'm a good influence on anybody, it's time I cultivated some new vices.

We humans have to make considerable progress before we can accept a free gift, and value it.

The world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better... with hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.

I was promoted to corporal. I was promoted seven times. To corporal.

We shall drive ever forward along this line until all our citizens have above-average incomes!

In alchemy one goes through four stages of development: the nigredo, in which one experiences the darkness and depression of life; the albedo, in which one sees the brightness of things; the rubedo, where one discovers passion; and finally the citrino, where one appreciates the goldenness of life.

Often, when new growth occurs, the most dreadful things seem to happen, but then we see that they were exactly what was required.

Aphrodite energy is a valuable quality. She is in the service of personal development and wields her terrible power to make those around her grow. When it is time for growth, the old ways and the

If you wish to give your children the best possible gift, the best possible entree into life, remove your shadow from them. To give them a clean heritage, psychologically speaking is the greatest legacy. And, incidentally, you will go far in your own development by taking your shadow back into our private psychological structure— where it first originated and where it is required for your own wholeness.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

How to evolve? Read my book Prometheus Rising, and do all the exercises in that. There are a lot of exercises. It will keep you busy for at least a year. And if at the end of that year you haven't evolved, write me a letter of complaint, and I'll try to write a better book.

The Third Wave can, and will, transcend this problem within industrialism. The Third Wave will be neither capitalist nor socialist, nor some milkwater blend of the two. It will demand a whole new economy, just as feudalism created an economy unknown to tribal humanity and industrialism created the two competing economies of capitalism and socialism, both unguessed and unpredictable from the perspective of the feudal stage.

These thingamajigs act like waves part of the time and like particles part of the time. This basic paradox has remained all through the 94 years of development of quantum mechanics and gives great comfort to those of us who believe no one model or perspective ever shows all the truth or the only truth about anything. For further details see my book, Quantum Psychology.