growth

You__l get better with time so be patient with yourself.

Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

Maturity is the ability to see what is important and what is not.

I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.

Great hardship always seems to be the prerequisite to meaningful spiritual growth.

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 urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.

your thoughts will make you a victor or a victim.

One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.

Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us.

Visiting new places andmeeting interesting people _ even if "What remained after paying the rent for the Tel Aviv flat, which I shared with a roommate, and the tuition at university was close to nothing _ it was the experiences that mattered.

Visiting new places and meeting interesting people _ even if "What remained after paying the rent for the Tel Aviv flat, which I shared with a roommate, and the tuition at university was close to nothing _ it was the experiences that mattered.

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

If you__e gone to travel to have fun, you will most likely have no new choices to make. But if you have gone travelling to grow, then you are bound to have to make that choice__hat of making a new home and welcoming people in it regardless of how different they are from you.

The purpose of a pilgrimage is about setting aside a long period of time in which the only focus is to be the matters of the soul. Many believe a pilgrimage is about going away but it isn__; it is about coming home. Those who choose to go on pilgrimage have already ventured away from themselves; and now set out in a longing to journey back to who they are. Many a time we believe we must go away from all that is familiar if we are to focus on our inner well-being because we feel it is the only way to escape all that drains and distracts us, allowing us to turn inward and tend to what ails us. Yet we do not need to go to the edges of the earth to learn who we are, only the edges of ourself.

The world could be a little less cruel, if we nurture each other while we grow; learn understanding while we transform and maintain a humble attitude whilst we succeed.

Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It's as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love with have been refined and purified.