My PERSONAL growth stems from the HUMILITY with which I navigate the world, namely with a REVERENCE for all of the knowledge that I've yet to LEARN but that is out there available to me.

One problem with the focus on SPECULATION is that it tends to PROMOTE the growth of the GREAT INTELLECTUAL cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.

A SPIRITUAL partnership is a partnership between equals for the PURPOSE of spiritual GROWTH. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power STRUGGLES to LEARN about themselves and change themselves.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which MEANS leaving THINGS behind us, has UTTERLY obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things INSIDE us.

I took a risk and invested in SM Mall of ASIA because I WANTED to CREATE SOMETHING that could contribute to Philippine TOURISM growth.

Everything we do these days - our lust for EVER more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of TECHNOLOGY and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels US TOWARD the REALM where souls abandon all hope.

The key to GROWTH is acknowledging your FEAR of the UNKNOWN and JUMPING in anyway.

Design has long GONE from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in ISOLATION to a POWERFUL catalyzer of growth.

In Delaware, the largest GROWTH in POPULATION is Indian-Americans moving from INDIA. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin DONUTS unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the GROWTH of ideas. It also stunts the ACT of questioning, and it does this by pushing the IDEA that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be PROVEN.

You can't GET the GROWTH WITHOUT the SKILLS.