*PROGRESS - also see CATALYST, CONTAGIOUS, EVOLVE, GROWTH, TRANSFORM
We build roadblocks to our progress by doubling our efforts to do discursive meditation. Transformation is not a plan to execute; it is a gift to receive in trusting abandonment. (Dark Night, p108)
We have believed that our mechanical inventions formed the principal test of man's advancement; but now we are beginning to perceive that the only real criterion of civilization and progress is character. We have been living in a fool's paradise. Our standard of measurement has been wrong. What we have needed was progress in things spiritual, not in things material. (Rebld, p32-33)