Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.
Develop what you lack.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Big doors swing on little hinges.
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