Quotes about Growth

Where you hadn't yet dealt with your shadows, you manifested shadowy situations. Broken parts of you encountered broken parts of others.

It has been said that love brings up everything unlike itself, and sometimes just when we feel we are moving towards a solution, the problem comes up again and grabs us by the throat. That is natural. It is part of the process. Do not despair.

T]horoughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung, Stages of Life

Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounded Michelangelo's perfect statue.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. It's the Holy Spirit's job to draw our attention to that, and help us move beyond that point.

We're not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn't love until it's unconditional.

Think something isn't good enough, and it never will be. Think something is wonderful, and it will only get better.

Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to be doesn't stand a chance.

A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing—the wings of my newborn self.

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

Yet being with that dissonance is important; it is our soul work. The purpose of our lives is to close the gap between what could be and what too often is.