#growth

it’s more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer. ↗

— Dr. Edward Shirley

#life-lessons #spiritual-development #spiritual-growth #life

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness. ↗

— Deborah Day

#self-improvement #self-love #love

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. ↗

— Hafiz

#personal-growth #spirituality #transcendence #transformation #personal-growth

One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves. ↗

— Anne Hill

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What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#home #home

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean? ↗

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

#fictional-character #identity-crisis #personal-growth #home

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#spiritual-growth #spiritual-growth

When we commit daily to offering our love, living in integrity, truth and values, we are more easily in tune to live our purpose …. We live our ethical life in all aspects; family, friends and business. Our spirit and body are always with us. In IHood, we choose to honor spiritual behavior over that of our body. ↗

— Jill Little

#self-awareness #spiritual-growth #spirituality #business

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death] ↗

— Dionysius Cato

#growth #inspirational #learning #death

Outer relationships with a man or a woman are a mirror of the relationship between our own inner man and woman. Embracing our own inner man and woman means to understand the inner drama that happens between our male and female aspects, which manifests on the outside as relationships. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

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