“Our first error was, however, a natural one. The child who has mastered the spelling-book gives the impression of knowing how to read.” – Dr. Maria Montessori
“Indeed, it is often the case that an assistant has a greater dexterity in experimental technique than the master scientist himself.” – Dr. Maria Montessori
“If you want to become successful you don’t revile successful people, you picture how did they become that way and pattern yourself in that way through identification.” – David R. Hawkins
“The ways to develop a peaceful nature… the first thing to do is to give up trying to change and control other people. Don’t tell them how to vote, give up questionable advertising, let go of trying to change and control others.” – David R. Hawkins
“Peacefulness then has to be a decision that you make.” – David R. Hawkins
“All you have to figure out is one thing, there’s only one thing only you’ll have to surrender: the payoff you’re getting from whatever positionality you’re stuck in. That’s all you’ve got [to] let go.” – David R. Hawkins
“So all of us within spiritual work have held a spiritual ideal teacher, spiritual figures, somebody who is inspiring, who speaks to us, who we can relate to.” – David Hawkins
“You’re only subject to what you hold in mind. So if you think that such a thing is injurious to you it will be by virtue of the fact that you believe it will be. Because in and within itself, it has no power.” – David R. Hawkins
“It’s not necessary to bring down your enemies because they will bring themselves down by their own hand. By their own hand they will do themselves in, and then you’re not stuck with the Karma.” – David R. Hawkins
“Spiritual work is a tremendous threat to the narcissistic core of the ego. Why? Because the narcissistic or the ego considers itself to be divine.” – David R. Hawkins
“If you understand divine justice, it saves you the bother of getting even because everything is taken care of by the divine.” – David R. Hawkins
“Each one of these negative feelings is hooked in with others. Not one of them ever exists alone. You’re angry because you’re prideful because you’re disappointed because you didn’t acquire again.” – David R. Hawkins
“Every negative thing that’s holding you back from enlightenment is due to the payoff that you’re getting secretly from the ego.” – David R. Hawkins
“Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest too… Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers. Hope herself ceases to be happiness when Impatience companions her.” – John Ruskin
“The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‘Thus far and no farther.'” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“Spiritual progress occurs in stages: In the beginning, one learns of spiritual realities and studies them. Then comes the practice and application of the teachings in every aspect of life, and eventually one becomes the prayer.” – David Hawkins
“It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life.” – Samuel Smiles
“…no laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action.” – Samuel Smiles
“The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful.” – Samuel Smiles
“Let us see how to make every breath of our life truly worthwhile, so that if you just sit here and breathe, it is phenomenon—not just a meaningless inhalation and exhalation.” – Sadhguru