Quotes about Evolution

all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.

God brings us—through failure—from unconsciousness to ever-deeper consciousness and conscience.

Resurrection" is another word for change, but particularly positive change—which we tend to see only in the long run. In the short run, it often just looks like death.

You normally have to let go of the old and go through a stage of unknowing or confusion, before you can move to another level of awareness or new capacity.

Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.

New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.

No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it in the first place.

Given our present evolution of consciousness, and especially the historical and technological access we now have to the "whole picture," I now wonder if a sincere person can even have a healthy and holy "personal" relationship with God if that God does not also connect them to the universal. A personal God cannot mean a smaller God, nor can God make you in any way smaller—or such would not be God.

One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. —CARL JUNG, THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE PSYCHE As

In many ways what we're seeing as we explore the Bible is an observing of the development of human consciousness and human readiness for God. That's why we do see some difference between the earlier and later Scriptures: There's been a development in consciousness. In

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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." I