"What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution."
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"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."
"A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest."
"Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species."
"Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy."
"Some call it evolution, And others call it God."
"When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve."
"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened."
"Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator."
"Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution."
"The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel."
"I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there."
"Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche."
"Beauty is a life-long evolution."
"Evolution: The Modern Synthesis."
"Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others."
"Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself."
"God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field."
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
"But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or may be. On the other hand, it must be essentially present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf."