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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.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

Our children take our level of vibration and raise it even higher. This is how we, as humans, continue evolution.

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.

Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this quite incredible Universe, we still have not the smallest clue to our own fate.

Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

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

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

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

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

Social evolution is demonstrated by movement towards unity, not separatism.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

So it was a whole experience revolving around "The Evolution of Dance," but wasn't just a company that put an ad on the video.

Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself.

Success is not in obtaining the thing. Because there's always another thing. And then you look back on it, and for me, through my evolution, yes I have success by most measures - but for me, when it comes to the greatest joy of reward, there's an emotional element and there's an intellectual element. Emotionally, my greatest joy was the personal relationships I've had. That was the greatest joy. Intellectually, my satisfaction was that I do feel I've evolved well and I'm doing my best to contribute toward evolution.

Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.

Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions.

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.

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

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.