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• Evolution: A gradual process of change and development.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Evolution: Any process of formation or growth; development.  Dictionary.com
• Evolution: A process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, more complex, or better state.  Merriam Webster
• Growth,  Learning,  Improvement,  Transcendence,  Transformation,  Life is a process

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Evolution is intrinsic to man’s nature …

• Man is not born perfect. He is born as a process. He has to seek and search and explore. He has to become, because his being arises only through becoming. Becoming is his being. He can only be if he is on the move. Evolution is intrinsic to man’s nature, evolution is his very soul. And those who take themselves for granted remain unfulfilled. Those who think they are born complete remain unevolved. Then the seed remains the seed. It never becomes a tree and never knows the joys of spring and the sunshine and the rain, and the ecstasy of bursting into millions of flowers. That explosion is the fulfilment, that explosion is what existence is all about—exploding into millions of flowers. When the potential becomes the actual, only then is man fulfilled. Osho

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… and the desire to evolve is humanity’s most pervasive driving force

• I believe that the desire to evolve, i.e.to get better, is probably humanity’s most pervasive driving force… The things we are striving for are just the bait to get us to chase after them in order to make us evolve, and it is the evolution and not the reward itself that matters to us and those around us. Ray Dalio
• In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Rob Parker

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To evolve into the person you were intended to be is the real point of being alive

• The real point of being alive is to evolve into the whole person you were intended to be. Oprah Winfrey
• There is a higher purpose to your life, a special contribution you came to make. Part of your reason for coming to earth is to evolve yourself as well as to serve humanity in some way. We will call the process of evolving yourself your life purpose, and the service you came to offer humanity your life’s work. They are intertwined, because as you serve others you will naturally evolve yourself. As you evolve and radiate more light, you automatically serve others. Everything you do to evolve yourself and carry out your life’s work is an act of aligning with the Higher Will and your Higher Self. Sanaya Roman
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To grow is to evolve

• I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear. Tupac Shakur

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Each moment holds the potential for evolution

• In every moment there is potential for something new. In every moment there is room for emergence. That’s the miracle of evolution. Andrew Cohen
• Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow. Jalal Uddin Rumi

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As a society, we need to evolve to the higher ethics of tolerance, love and non-violence

• “The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.” Ursula K. Le Guin
• Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Alva Edison
• Tolerance,  Love,  Violence

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Evolution requires periods of discomfort and pain

• Every positive change–every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness – involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception. Dan Millman
• It is a fundamental law of nature that to evolve one has to push one’s limits. Ray Dalio
• Pain,  Stretch your comfort zone

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Evolution is not a straight ascending line

• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Evolution takes time and work and must not be forced

• Personal evolution takes time and work. Bill Harris
• There’s no race to the finish line; we all evolve according to our own unique pattern of unfoldment and, although it can be accelerated, it cannot be forced. Michael Bernard Beckwith

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Evolve through the decisions and actions you take

• The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the earth are the means by which you evolve. Gary Zukav
• Decision making,  Choice,  Action

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Evolve by surrendering to your creative impulse

• Our creative genius is the fountainhead of originality. It fires our compulsion to evolve. It inspires us to challenge norms. Creative genius is about flying to new heights on untested wings. It is about the danger of crashing. Gordon MacKenzie

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Realise there is no evolution in certainty and security

• The search for certainty and security is an attachment to the known. The known is the past. There is no evolution in that. Uncertainty on the other hand is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom. I relinquish my attachment to the known and step into the field of all possibilities. Deepak Chopra
• Let go of the need for certainty

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All of life’s experiences are here for our evolution

• All of life’s experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. David Emerald
• Everyone and everything that we experience in life is in service to our healing, personal growth, and evolution. Lorraine Cohen
• Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. Steve Maraboli
• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. Eckhart Tolle

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Evolve the ability to hold multiple perspectives

• Let’s consciously evolve as individuals and as a culture to a “second- tier” level of consciousness. Here, for the first time, we can hold multiple perspectives. No one is smart enough to be 100% wrong. Ken Wilber
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Evolve the ability to feel good

• Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time. Gay Hendricks

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Allow your ideas and thoughts to evolve

• Collaborative cultures accelerate the evolution of ideas, because they nurture cross pollination. Competitive cultures slow down the rate of evolution by locking their ideas away. David Hodgson
• Your mind is right now filled with old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but mostly someone else’s old thoughts. It’s important now, it’s time now, to change your mind about some things. This is what evolution is all about. Neale Donald Walsch
• The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them. Bernard Beckett

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Allow your ideals, tastes and desires to evolve

• I recognize that even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn’t change, you’ve become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you. Neale Donald Walsch

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Allow your desire to drive your evolution

• Desire is the engine of creation. Desire is our divine impulse to evolve. Through our wanting, we come to know more of ourselves, each other and life. Desire leads the way home. Danielle LaPorte
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Allow your relationships to evolve

• Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change. Sherryl Woods
• Principles for healthy relationships

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In today’s world we need to evolve or we’ll die

• Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction. Eckhart Tolle
• When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life- form – – or a species — will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.  Eckhart Tolle

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Evolution doesn’t just happen at a physical level …

• I don’t understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid package that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What’s wrong with that idea? Garth Stein

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… but at a spiritual level too

• The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy…. Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much a development out of what has gone before in the evolutionary process as physical life is; which means that the origin of spiritual life is from within. John Dietrich
• We need to update our spiritual ideas so that we conceive of awakening as a perpetual process of evolution, rather than an end-driven dash for ultimate salvation. Tim Freke
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The very purpose of the soul is to evolve …

• The soul is very clear that its purpose is evolution…it is not concerned with the achievements of the body or the development of the mind. These are all meaningless to the soul. Neale Donald Walsch
• There comes a time in the evolution of every soul when the chief concern is no longer the survival of the physical body, but the growth of the spirit; no longer the attainment of worldly success, but the realization of self. Neale Donald Walsch
• Purpose,  The soul

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… into higher forms of love

• The spiritual being sees the physical world as an arena for growth and learning with the specific purpose of serving and evolving into higher levels of love. Wayne Dyer
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Love is the blood of spiritual evolution

• Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• The crisis, as well as the opportunity, of our time is to surrender our ego and conditioned fear mechanisms to the primary torsion energy of unconditional love that is seeking to evolve us and is calling us as a species home. Sol Luckman

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Spiritual evolution is all about the evolution of consciousness

• In speaking of evolution, it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness. Gurdjieff
• A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn’t about the egos. Ram Dass
• Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. Stanislav Grof
• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. Eckhart Tolle
• Evolution is the development of the energy of the universe in such a way that it has an increasing ability to consciously control itself and the universe around it. It is a progressive change from the unconscious to the conscious. We are the universe trying to comprehend itself. Man is the corporeal manifestation of the universe trying to control its own destiny. Man is God in the process of coming into existence. James Hart
• I want to suggest that the purpose of the spiritual journey is not to arrive anywhere, but rather to engage with the adventure of life in a new way, so that the evolutionary process unfolds powerfully within us. It’s about waking up to our deeper being so that we can more fully engage with the evolutionary adventure of becoming a more conscious individual. It’s about living our lives as a transformational process through which we are learning to love. Tim Freke
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Our spiritual evolution has a long way to go yet

• It’s taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn’t make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself. Andrew Cohen

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Evolve spiritually through meditation …

• Meditation is the foundation for deeper spiritual evolution. Swami Sai Premananda
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… and by transcending identification with thought

• The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn’t mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought. Eckhart Tolle

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Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new

• Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrenders of the mind’s vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes more free and more open to the light of Truth. David R. Hawkins
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Suffering is often the greatest catalyst to spiritual evolution

• Suffering can be endured because there is a reason for it that is worth the effort. What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul? Gary Zukav
• Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. Eckhart Tolle
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn’t.  They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things.  Suffering drives you deeper.  The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form.  A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego– but not until you suffer consciously.  Eckhart Tolle
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Be an evolutionary pioneer

• The future is not a given. What’s going to happen is not already known and is not predetermined. So often, we tend to hold onto metaphysical worldviews that tell us that the higher levels and stages of development are already laid out. But they’re not. This is a new way of thinking: the recognition that the structures of the future are yet to be determined, yet to be created. And they don’t create themselves; they are created to the degree to which human beings at the leading edge consciously engage in the evolutionary process. Only those individuals who are way ahead of their time begin to create these new structures or grooves in consciousness, and in time, when others progress through the lower stages, they’re going to follow those grooves that have been laid by the evolutionary pioneers who went before them. When enough people take that path, those grooves get deeper and eventually become stages that everybody is going to develop through automatically. So the awakening human at the leading edge today bears a profound responsibility to be an evolutionary pioneer—to be the one who is literally living in that place between the present and the future. There is no one else who can do this for us. Andrew Cohen

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• We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. Lily Tomlin
• Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. S. Gilbert
• Anglers think they are divining some primeval natural force by outwitting a fish, a creature that never even got out of the evolutionary starting gate. Rich Hall
• If evolution really works how come mothers only have two hands? Milton Berle
• If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should’ve evolved something better than survival of the fittest. Yeah, I told ’em I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest. Jane Wagner
• Louie: Do you know what the difference is between people like you and people like me Nardo? Alex: Yeah two million years of evolution. Judd Hirsch
• My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. Steven Wright
• Well aren’t you a waste of two billion years of evolution.
• Well evolution’s just a ” theory;” and I’m thinking to myself …Well thank goodness gravity’s a law.’   Marc Maron
• Why do women have smaller feet than men? It’s one of those “evolutionary things” that allows them to stand closer to the kitchen sink.
• You are proof that evolution CAN go in reverse.
• You know what evolution is a myth; why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans? Christine O’Donnell
• You might recognize me; I’m the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart.   Jay London
• A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. Murphy’s Law
• Sex is something that evolves over the years from tri-weekly to try weekly to try weakly.

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