Quotes about Growth

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

Relationships are assignments. They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time, and then assigns them to each other. Like

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.

In the holy relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person.

What's dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.

People are not perfect—that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

It's easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us angry, however, are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness.

When physical proximity no longer supports the highest level of teaching and learning between them, the assignment will call for physical separation. What then appears to be the end of the relationship however, is not really an end. Relationships are eternal. They are of the mind, not the body, since people are energy, not

A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone.  The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.

Slowly but surely, you will learn to behave as you would have wished to behave but were too wounded to know how.