Top 1200 Spiritual Evolution Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.

Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life. Nourishment of the feeling level is the basis for growth of the spiritual holistic value. Delicate behaviour on the surface should be such as to nourish, uphold and enhance the Transcendental value where feelings merge into a common source.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.

Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.

Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.

The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.

Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.

In the jungle, size is king. Women like big men. That's just evolution.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

The final and conclusive evidence against evolution is the fact that the Bible denies it.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Zen has an expression, "nothing special." When you understand "nothing special," you realize that everything is special. Everything's special and nothing's special. Everything's spiritual and nothing's spiritual. It's how you see, it's what eyes you're looking through, that matters.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.