The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Interpretation
Growth involves expanding our awareness to new levels of understanding.
This quote suggests that personal and collective growth is achieved by elevating our awareness and understanding of the world around us. Laozi emphasizes the importance of expanding our consciousness, implying that when we become aware of higher dimensions of thought and existence, we facilitate our own growth and development, both intellectually and spiritually.
In practice
This quote can be used in a self-help seminar to inspire participants about self-awareness.
If you understand others you are smart._x000D_ If you understand yourself you are illuminated._x000D_ If you overcome others you are powerful._x000D_ If you overcome yourself you have strength._x000D_ If you know how to be satisfied you are rich._x000D_ If you can act with vigor, you have a will._x000D_ If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting._x000D_ If you die without loss, you are eternal.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.
The knowledge of all things is possible
Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.
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