Joko Beck Quotes

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

Soul development should take precedence over all things.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

All we really need is this technique of Transcendental Meditation, which allows any human being to easily and effortlessly transcend. When you get this technique of Transcendental Meditation, stay regular in your meditation twice a day and you will begin to rapidly unfold your full potential as a human being and see life get better and better and better.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.