Quotes about Growth

In the holy relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person.

What's dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.

People are not perfect—that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

It's easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us angry, however, are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness.

When physical proximity no longer supports the highest level of teaching and learning between them, the assignment will call for physical separation. What then appears to be the end of the relationship however, is not really an end. Relationships are eternal. They are of the mind, not the body, since people are energy, not

A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone.  The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.

Slowly but surely, you will learn to behave as you would have wished to behave but were too wounded to know how.

Of course things might have gone roughly in the past, but the past is over and cannot touch you unless you hold on to it. Right now, in this moment, the universe is responding not to your past but to the truth of who you are, always were, and always will be.

The pain you are going through is not what will determine your future; your future will be determined by who you are as you go through your pain.

you keep trying all your old tricks, the ones that never did work but that you keep thinking might work this time. Once you've had enough and you can't do it