The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
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Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her.
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
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Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
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When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
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Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
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