becoming

Growing old is inevitable, growing up is a choice.

Surround yourself with people whose lives work in every important way, and you will become one of them.

This is an extension to the well know quote from René Descartes: "I think therefore I am".

"I visualize therefore I become" - Claude Pelletier

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.

"Enlightenment" and "Nirvana"?
They are dead trees to fasten a donkey to.
The scriptures?
They are bits of paper to wipe mud from your face.
What can these things have to do with you becoming free?

I am not a human being, i am a human becoming.

The more you are, the less you need to be.

What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold?

As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.