Spiritual Growth

The important thing is not to think too much, and so to do whatever best awakens your love.

The fruit ripens on the tree, the roots are silently at work in the darkness of the earth against a time when there shall be new leaves, fresh blossoms, green fruit. Such is the growing edge!

Above all, trust in the slow work of God… Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be.

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and… try to love the questions themselves…

Though your destination is not yet clear, you can trust the promise of this opening; unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning, that is at one with your life’s desire.

When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.

At the very heart of belonging is spirituality—the deeply held belief that we’re inextricably connected to each other by something greater than us—rooted in love and compassion…

There is always a practice before the practice; a sitting before the incomprehensible long enough to feel and sometimes understand the mystery each instrument and craft is designed to invoke.

Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.

When to rush to an answer would be to deny the gravity of the question before us, then what we’re called to do is hold and love and inhabit that question itself and have it be our teacher and our guide…

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise one, gathering it little by little, fills oneself with good.

“What thou art within, that outside thee thou shalt enjoy”; no machinery can rescue you from the law of your being.

All humans are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

The virtues we acquire by first having actually practiced them, just as we do the arts.

Only through relating with God in our lives can we reclaim our true value and allow God to dwell in our heart…

True spirituality is a mental attitude that you can practice at any time.

In all that is in this world dwell holy sparks, no thing is empty of them.

Carefully uphold the proper norms of conduct, and imitate them day and night… After a time, we become familiar with them, and then we no longer need to imitate them but can make our own standard.

You need to cultivate good habits and develop your spiritual senses. Nothing in your surroundings is meaningless.

When I was seven years old: I’d come in here without thinking I need to do this, or I hope to gain something from this, it was just to be the music that you’re playing.