Peace Pilgrim Quotes

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life.

Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better.

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

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

The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.

It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.

If it scares me, it means I'm supposed to do it.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.

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.

I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has made me a better person. It has given me courage and a sense of purpose I never had before. But you don't have to do like I did...wait until you lose a leg or get some awful disease, before you take the time to find out what kind of stuff you're really made of. You can start now. Anybody can.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are...

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

When you face adversity . . . don't' ask: Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this, now? What have I done to cause this? Rather ask: What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial?