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Quotes About Evolution

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
~ Carl Jung
Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
~ Laozi
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
~ Lenny Kravitz
...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.
~ Jan Smuts
People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance.
~ Henry Thomas Hamblin
The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.
~ Marianne Williamson
Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
~ Marianne Williamson
For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.
~ Rudolf Steiner
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
~ Gautama Buddha
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.
~ Rumi
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
~ Franz Kafka
The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
~ Pema Chodron
Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.
~ Frederick Lenz
In today's world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for spiritual evolution.
~ Dannion Brinkley
Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.
~ Wayne Dyer
Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
You will be transformed by what you read.
~ Deepak Chopra
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.
~ Andrew Cohen
Love is the real work of your life. It is your spiritual path. It is the key to your growth and evolution.
~ Robert Holden
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi