Quotes About Evolution

What we possess is temporary, but what we become is permanent.

Each moment is a fruit of the past and seed of future.

When humanity ignores imagination, there is no growth, no quest to outgrow fear, no desire for spiritual reality. Evolution does not happen. Spiritual reality remains undiscovered. Only the self matters; others remain invisible. In other words, humans stay animals.

Only when humans realize that they have been blessed with the intellectual wherewithal to outgrow animal needs and fears, will they truly evolve and discover their potential.

Wisdom thus is always work in progress.

It is about realising that in every human being is a frightened beast, seeking survival and significance, and knowing very well that humans can outgrow this beast as they empathise with others.

the social body also needs to die and be reborn, locate itself in the new structure.

No lesson is permanent. Wisdom thus is always work in progress.

nothing in this world is spontaneous. Everything is a reaction to the past. Shantanu

Brahmana represents a state when humans have totally overpowered the animal brain; in other words, outgrown fear. We do not look at the other as predator or prey, mate or rival. We do not seek to judge the other in order to position ourselves. Our identity is not dependent on the other. It is independent, devoid of the need for props. We either withdraw as Shiva does, or engage as Vishnu does, in order to enable the insecure other, who is entrapped in a crumpled mind.

She was not born, but rather became, Jane Austen.

Hidup tak pernah berakhir mati. Hidup hanya berganti wujud. Dan sepanjang perjalanan hidup, kau dan aku, kita semua, hanya berjalan menembusi satu tabir itu saja. -Rimba Amniotik-

Tapi, hidup ini cair. Semesta bergerak. Realitas berubah. Seluruh simpul dari kesadaran kita berkembang mekar. Hidup akan mengikis apa saja yang memilih diam, memaksa kita untuk mengikuti arus agungnya yang jujur, tetapi penuh rahasia. Kamu, tidak terkecuali.

I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'

Both outer and inner phenomena arise as a result of causes and conditions. Outer phenomena, the things of the physical world, arise in a series of seven steps. The texts use the example of a seed giving rise to a plant that gives rise to a fruit. The seven steps are: seed, sprout, leaflets, stemmed plant, bud, flower, fruit. Each stage succeeds the previous one in time and in order, each giving rise to the next.

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual just has to be born, to develop to the point at which it can procreate, and then to fall away into death to make way for its successors, and humans are no exception whatever they may fancy.

Before the children,' Alice said, nodding her head slowly. 'Children change everything. Family change everything. You must cross the river, to the other side of yourself. After that you find it.

Diana Norman

In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be.

The world changes. Now, one needs no army and no sword to conquer the world.

The real stars don't even fascinate me as much as they used to when I was... younger." "I'm sorry for that, as well.

Reading a book is not change the words.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.