Quotes About Evolution

So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to you, or at least demanding of you, than you can now imagine.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

But the biggest problem of map-making is not that we have to start from scratch, but that if our maps are to be accurate we have to continually revise them.

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call. They are inevitably, therefore, people of great power, although the world may generally behold them as quite ordinary people, since more often than not they will exercise their power in quiet or even hidden ways.

The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.

It is God who is the source of the evolutionary force and God who is the destination ... the ultimate goal of spiritual growth is for the individual to become one with God.

The times have changed. To move with them I had to give it up. I do not miss it. I thought I would, but I don't.

What they once perceived as problems they now perceive as opportunities.

And it is through our love for others that we assist others to elevate themselves. Love, the extension of the self, is the very act of evolution. It is evolution in progress. The evolutionary force, present in all of life, manifests itself in mankind as human love. Among humanity love is the miraculous force that defies the natural law of entropy.

I find the average quality of present parenting appallingly poor, I have every reason to believe it far superior to that of just a few generations back. A

Dependency is but one of the forms of behavior to which we incorrectly apply the word "love" when concern for spiritual evolution is absent.

And no matter how seemingly healthy and spiritually evolved we are, there is still a part of us, however small, that does not want us to exert ourselves, that clings to the old and familiar, fearful of any change or effort, desiring comfort at any cost and absence of pain at any price, even if the penalty be ineffectiveness, stagnation or regression.

Deixa lá dizer o Pascal que o homem é um caniço pensante. Não; é uma errata pensante, isso sim. Cada estação da vida é uma edição, que corrige a anterior, e que será corrigida também, até a edição definitiva, que o editor dá de graça aos vermes.

era tão diversa de si mesma, ora isto, ora aquilo, que os dias iam passando sem acordo fixo, nem desengano perpétuo.

Every season of life is an edition that corrects the one before and which will also be corrected itself until the definitive edition, which the publisher gives to the worms gratis.

Each season in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one, which will in turn be corrected again, until we reach the definitive edition, which the editor donates for free to the worms.

Ogni stagione della vita è una nuova edizione, che corregge la precedente e sarà corretta a sua volta fino all'edizione definitiva, che l'editore dà in regalo ai vermi.

Mas o tempo corre, e as nossas sensações com ele se modificam.

Esta outra independência não tem Sete de Setembro nem campo de Ipiranga; não se fará num dia, mas pausadamente, para sair mais duradoura; não será obra de uma geração nem duas; muitas trabalharão para ela até perfazê-la de todo.

Some died, others were born

Each season of life is an edition, which corrects the previous one, and that will be corrected also, until the definitive edition, that the publisher gives free to the worms.

mulher feita, refeita e perfeita.

Tempora mutantur.

come piante novelle, Rinovellate di novelle fronde.