1,799 Quotes About Evolution

We are, or will be, going through the most radical transformation the world has ever seen; people are justly terrified, excited, depressed, heartbroken and hopeful, all at once.

We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and in doing this, we miss out on gaining any new insight or understanding.

You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a tree. The entire cosmos is expressing itself through your being.

We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth, whatever it may turn out to be. This requires a state of openness, curiosity, and sincerity, a state of pure awareness, a state of observing reality without jumping to conclusions about what reality is. This state of direct experience is known in Zen as “beginner’s mind,” and it is essential to embody this state when we want to understand our experience.

There is no logical necessity for the conclusion that the change cannot begin at all because its perfection is not immediately possible.

Every creature is a co-creator.

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

The greatest gift we can give the world is our own evolution.

You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.