“So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to…”Tagged: Life, Suffering, Growing Up
“Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.”Tagged: Growing Up, Problems, Learning, Discipline
“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.”Tagged: Growing Up, Problems, Learning
“All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up–that growing is an ever ongoing process.”Tagged: Life, Growing Up, Learning