Growth here is meant in the sense of increase and to augment what was originally there. In other words, to become more and / or greater than what was at the beginning. All things must grow or wither and die. However, if growth proceeds too quickly for too long, it will exceed its limits and in an effort to continue, destroy itself. If growth proceeds too slowly, it will not keep up with its environment and will again not survive.

Life needs to grow in pace with its environment, both internally and externally. If it does so, balance results. This does not preclude spurts in either case as growth will still remain the overriding effect: Life can learn from either experience.

One of our jobs in this world is to make room for ourselves: We are not here to accommodate what is, but to help create what will be. We are not here to be redundant. We are here to be something new because we are something new. We are here to bring what was missing until we arrived. No one else can do what we can do.

Growth is also about breaking through obstacles: Things like to stay the way they are because they possess a type of equilibrium. This becomes an obstacle to anything that upsets that equilibrium. Anything new will, by its very nature, upset that balance and is there to do just that.

The current balance will stand against anything that upsets it. Therefore to reach any goal, we will encounter obstacles in trying to achieve it. The reason for this is two-fold: 1) It stems too rapid growth keeping things from becoming rampant and thus preventing the growth of other things. 2) Every time we ovecome an obstacle we learn and become tougher, therefore we are then better equipped to handle the goal we are striving to achieve. Without this tempering we remain either too brittle or too elastic, neither of which allows us to reach our goal.