Growth Quotes - Page 24

• The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Order, Practice

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• But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Self, Giants, Mindfulness

  "The Life Divine: Art of living".

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• Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

  Jane Austen

  Maturity, Self, Mindfulness

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• But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mindfulness, Trials, Living Things

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.493, Macmillan

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• What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3078, Delphi Classics

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• We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and workings,we overcome it by the very knowing.The primary purpose of meditation is to become more consciousand familiar with our inner life.The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Knowing, Meditation, Weakness

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• There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.

  John Prescott

  Talking, Years, Two

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• The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Love, Keys, Two

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• And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

  John W. Snow

  Steps, Partners, Conversation

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.

  John W. Snow

  Thinking, Economy, Checks

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• The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower, of the need for our loving, mortified reception and cultivation in our hearts and souls of the seeds and roots of the supernatural gifts and virtues necessary for progress in the ascetical/mystical ascent of our souls toward union with God and with the divine will for Creation and Kingdom

  John Stokes

  Heart, Garden, Roots

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• Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Wall, Lying, Real

  "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".

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• LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lexicographer, Doe, Development

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of the human race: The idea of the Golden Rule; the idea of natural law; the idea of age-long growth or evolution.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Race, Law, Ideas

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• What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

  Robert Browning

  Work, Learning, Men

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.418, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Thoughtful, Problem

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Get Well, Communication

  "Getting Married (Mrs. George)". Play by George Bernard Shaw, May 12, 1908.

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• The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

  King Hussein I

  Hands, Links, Poverty

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• There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Country, Trying, Limits

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• Over the years I have come to believe that life is full of unchosen circumstances, that being human has to do with the evolution of our individual consciousness and with it, responsibilities for choice. Pain and joy both come with life. I believe that how we respond to what happens to us and around us shapes who we become and has to do with the psyche or the soul's growth.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Pain, Believe, Responsibility

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• If you want to grow a muscle, you must lift something out of your comfort zone. Push beyond what is comfortable, if you don't there will be no growth.

  Tony Robbins

  Self Improvement, Comfort, Want

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• There might be some credit in being jolly.

  Charles Dickens

  Credit, Might, Jolly

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…”, p.3228, e-artnow

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• Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Helping Others, Childhood

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  You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

  Jerry Garcia

  Personal Growth, Knows

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• Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

  Cheryl Richardson

  Children, Essence, Adoption

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