Marcel Proust Quotes

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

The world can only change from within.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.