Quotes About Evolution

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its owns books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

No matter how successful it has made you, your past experience won't ensure success in this new world.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

In the course of your journey it is most likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of

It's very hard to grow because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

If you listen to your own inner voice, it will tell you where you are now, and which method will work best for you in your evolution towards the light.

Instead of seeing my life as a personal history or career, I see myself as a pilgrim on a spiritual journey. I am no longer an isolated ego narrating my own storyline; I am a soul, evolving toward oneness. I am a pinprick of awareness in the star field of the cosmos. I am part of it all.

In the icy peaks of the Himalayas, we see the perfection of it all in the evolutionary journey of beings. And at the same moment, the caring part of us is like the bleeding heart of Jesus, and we look down and see the blood on the snow. We keep both of those in mind at every moment so we can help beings who are suffering in the way they need to be helped. If we are really going to help them get out of the illusion, we ourselves must not get lost in the illusion.

Rumi, the Persian mystic: "I died as stone, and rose again as plant. I died as plant, and became an animal. I died as animal, and was born a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more shall I die as man, to soar with the angels. But even from angelhood, I must pass on. For all is change, except the face of God.

The caterpillar does not become a flying caterpillar; it morphs into a butterfly.

A lineage that is pure is one that catapults us ultimately out the other end; it isn't designed to make us followers of the lineage. It is designed to take us through itself and free us at the other end.

What is now in the past was once in the future

a mere five years after the last maharaja had signed away his land, Indians had 'come to take integrated India so much for granted that it requires amental effort today even to imagine that it could be different'.

For most of human history, we appear to have lived in tribes of seventy-five to 150 people. Those who could not handle the complexity of the relationships would go off on their own. Lions need to eat, after all. Today

the transitory feeling of being constantly uprooted was always present.