Quotes about Development

One of the great surprises is that humans come to full consciousness precisely by shadowboxing, facing their own contradictions, and making friends with their own mistakes and failings. People who have had no inner struggles are invariably both superficial and uninteresting. We tend to endure them more than communicate with them, because they have little to communicate.

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

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.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

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

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

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.

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