Becoming Quote by John Welwood Download Open image “Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.” — John Welwood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becoming Discovering Fullness Humans Mean Nature of man
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves… — Brené Brown Copy Share
We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
“To be conformed to the one who has become human—that is what being really human means.[77.]” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To become truly human,one has to try an release oneself from the shackles of race,religion and nationality.The quantum of humanism one acquires is inevitably filtered when one limits oneself."-Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad(Kant Lecture,20090)” — Ashoka Prasad Copy Share
“If being human is not simply a matter of being born flesh and blood, if it's simply a way of thinking, acting, and feeling,… — Lieutenant Commander Data Copy Share Image
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there. — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is, or else… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don't entirely trust it, and therefore have… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
“Like the sun's rays that cause the seed to stir within its husk, love's radiant energy penetrates the facade of the false self, calling forth resources hidden deep within us. Its warmth wakes up the life inside us, making us want to uncurl, to give birth, to grow and reach for the light. It calls on us to break out… — John Welwood Copy Share
Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there—to learn,… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at… — John Welwood Copy Share
Boundless love always manages somehow to sparkle through your limited form. — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities,… — John Welwood Copy Share
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States goes and takes action there on behalf of the Iraqi government. You've got Iran coming in and saying we're going to stand with (Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri) al-Maliki, so now we're aligning ourselves with Iran,… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share
The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of… — Paul Tagliabue Copy Share Image
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood Copy Share
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
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