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Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.
Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.
The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.
Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.
Like money used wisely, awareness comes & we let it go. Like life, it arises infinitely, to tease & to soothe, to flow through us.
What comes, is called.
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.
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
Thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
One reason that we find the emergence of life surprising is that we don't really see much of it. . . We are like Horton the elephant, too large to hear the Whos.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.
Innovations usually begin life with an attempt to solve a specific problem, but once they get into circulation, they end up triggering other changes that would have been extremely difficult to predict. This is a pattern of change that appears constantly in evolutionary history.
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.
The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality ...
New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
But here begins a new account, the account of a man's gradual renewal, the account of his gradual regeneration, his gradual transition from one world to another, his acquaintance with a new, hitherto completely unknown reality.
Two tools are present to us daily; the one to speculate on the journey of life, the one to discern through the journey of life. The former is extends as far as nature does the latter stretches further than the limits of nature.
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.
We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.
Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
As we step out of the way new things are born.
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
We are consciousness wanting to expand.
Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.
A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.
These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.
No one can predict at the outset where the life stream will lead, but those moments of fissure, rupture, diversion, and frustration require choice and can become springboards to opportunity.
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.
We - mankind - stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device - our consciousness of the crisis - as our unique contribution.
Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.
The importance of awakening to our evolutionary origins is paramount because irrational ideas about "who we are" fuel our sense of separateness
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
In quiet crevices, life is born over and over again, without witness, without recognition. It happens, feverishly or serenely, fast or slow, and the guardians or propriety remain laughably ignorant.
There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.
I see the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks of perception are formed, affording memory and a slippery hold.
Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.
If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
I sank down on the bench, stupefied, stunned by this profusion of beings without origin: everywhere blossomings, hatchings out, my ears buzzed with existence, my very flesh throbbed and opened, abandoned itself to the universal burgeoning.
Now there are elements of our dynamic coming slowly into view, like a photograph in a darkroom.
Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
The daringly explicit absurdity of the evolutionary process - its unstoppable, messy, painful, indifferent knocking on random doors - is, arguably, precisely how a malevolent architect devoted to maintaining His anonymity would go about His business, painting Creation with impenetrable naturalism.
Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.
Nature is subtle and complex.
The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
Despite the differences between our species and cultures, there is an order that we all share. The development of a civilization is a scripted event. Minds join together to create new technologies, on its own against threats from the outside, that civilization crumbles.
A living thing is born.
Conscious Evolution
"Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of evolution and are now being transformed by it."
Barbara Marx Hubbard
A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.
The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself
itself, had emerged from that shadow.
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life ...
Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.
Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.
What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of a natural force but in the application of technique to all spheres of life.
The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.
The inevitability of gradualness.
If you pay attention to your inner life, you will see that the emergence of choices, efforts, and intentions is a fundamentally mysterious process.
We emerge from our Cloud of Ambiguity when we are ready or willing to let go of what has held us back.
Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.
This is the development of prajna, transcendent knowledge, the ability to see situations as they are.
Our growing thought Makes growing revelation.
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.
Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
Manifestation blossoms when we turn down or tune out doubtful noise.
The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
The Emergent resides in the people's seats, not the emperor's box.
Your body and the environment around you may reflect the disturbing and unusual activities unfolding across the globe as the planet evolves.
Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian foam of the canon, inspiring writers new and established alike.
Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.
Agitation gives birth to creation.
The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and ... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-awaited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.
Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
Subcreation is not just a desire, but a need and a right; it renews our vision and gives us new perspective and insight into ontological questions that might otherwise escape our notice within the default assumptions we make about reality.
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.