In my personal struggle for maturity, I am gradually becoming aware of new insights, which tend as if of the themselves to want to slip away from me.

Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.

The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.