Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.

The same goes for us: no emotional vulnerability, no growth.

Defensiveness never precedes growth, it stunts it.

Everybody wants to be somebody,but nobody wants to grow...

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

When you stop growing you start dying.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

You only grow when you are alone.

Progress means nothing to presence.

Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone.

Zen is nothing to get excited about.