Breaking Old Patterns Quotes

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.