Quotes about Development

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.

Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

If people are to develop any deep spirituality today, and especially if men are to develop spiritually, they need to be liberated from self-serving worldviews.

In many ways what we're seeing as we explore the Bible is an observing of the development of human consciousness and human readiness for God. That's why we do see some difference between the earlier and later Scriptures: There's been a development in consciousness. In

working hypothesis, can move forward with theory, while

Higher stages always empathetically include the lower, or they are not higher stages!

First-half-of-life religion is almost always about various types of purity codes or "thou shalt nots" to keep us up, clear, clean, and together, like good Boy and Girl Scouts. A certain kind of "purity" and self-discipline is also "behovely," at least for a while in the first half of life, as the Jewish Torah brilliantly presents.

We don't think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Trust the process.