George MacDonald Quotes

Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

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

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

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.

Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development

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.

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

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

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

A true initiation never ends.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of 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.

Change happens at the level of the individual

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.