Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
Growth is often a painful process.
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can’t be done.
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day.
Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time.
Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Commitment to love, to growth, to authentic power, is an everyday application of your will.
You have not failed until you quit trying.
Man’s duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.
Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you.
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.
Don’t say, “If I could, I would.” Say, “If I can, I will.”
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?