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The process of self-development can be described as the stripping away of layer after layer of all that is false.
The Daily Guru
Self-knowledge is for the purpose of contributing.
Alene Moris
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Zen proverb (see more Zen proverbs )
The teacher is within!
from Success is the Quality of Your Journey, by Jennifer James (see works by Jennifer James )
A saying by Lao Tzu goes something like this: First we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then our world – in that order! Most of us go about that process quite backward, first jumping into the world and bringing our messy, unresolved issues with us. The attempt to do anything significant in the world before we have been deeply changed ourselves is a way to avoid real change. Good intention counts for very little in the mythic journey! Doing our own work first leads to our true and unique participation in the world we wish to serve.
from The Inspired Heart, p134-135, by Jerry Wennstrom
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H Maslow (1908-1970) American psychologist (see works by Abraham Maslow )
Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way.
from Real Magic, by Wayne Dyer (see more works by Wayne Dyer )
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley (1864-1963) English novelist (see works by Aldous Huxley )
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.
Beauty Tips, by Audrey Hepburn (see more about Audrey Hepburn )
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German playwright (see works by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe )
Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.
Anthony Robbins (see works by Anthony Robbins )
A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L Evans
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S Buck (1892-1973) American writer (see works by Pearl S Buck )
Be very thankful you can grow regardless of any physical, mental, emotional or financial situation.
The Daily Guru
I don't like work… but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
Joseph Conrad
A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley (see works by Aldous Huxley )
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) American entrepreneur (see works by Henry Ford )
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindu proverb (see more Hindu proverbs )
It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus (460-370 BC) Greek philosopher (see more about Democritus )
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish artist (see works by and about Pablo Picasso )
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
Og Mandino (see works by Og Mandino )
The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.
from Passionate Presence, p165, by Catherine Ingram (see works by Catherine Ingram )
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Charles Gordy
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American writer (see works by and about Helen Keller )
The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
Thomas Szasz (1920-) American psychiatrist (see works by Thomas Szasz )
When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men.
Norvin McGranahan
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Morris Adler (1870-1937) Austrian psychiatrist
Let’s honor our mistakes by allowing them to teach us. Let’s consider our failings to be gifts, and share them humbly with others. Let the cracks in our perfect facades let in light and air so that new life can grow through them.
Molly Gordon
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist (see works by George Eliot )
Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you.
from Anam Cara, Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (p26), by John O’Donohue
It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
Francis Bacon
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American writer (see more by and about Helen Keller )
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindu proverb (see more Hindu proverbs )
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Warren Bennis
The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
Thomas Szasz (1920-) American psychiatrist (see works by Thomas Szasz )
Learn and grow all you can; serve and befriend all you can; enrich and inspire all you can.
William Arthur Ward
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