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Evolutionary Enlightenment

Andrew Cohen on his new book, 



Evolutionary Enlightenment  





"I believe that those of us in the twenty-first century at the leading edge of consciousness and culture urgently need 

a mystical spirituality and a source of soul liberation that points us not beyond time but toward the future that 

we need to create. I believe the spiritual impulse today is calling us not away from the world but toward that big next step 

we need to take in our world.…

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine,
but because people refuse to see it.

-James Albert Michener,
novelist (1907-1997)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree,
you water it and make it survive,
you haven't done a thing.
You are just talking.

-Wangari Muta Maathai,
activist and Nobel laureate (b. 1940)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

One cannot do right in one department of life
whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department.
Life is one indivisible whole.

-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden
of it for anyone else.

-Charles Dickens,
novelist (1812-1870)

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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage,
can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.
All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

-John Muir, naturalist,
explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges
over which they invite their students to cross;
then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse,
encouraging them to create their own.

-Nikos Kazantzakis, poet
and novelist (1883-1957)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

-Joseph Wood Krutch, writer

and naturalist…

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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEKEND:

Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules.
To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly,
in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery.

-George Polya, professor of mathematics (1887-1985)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Yesterday we obeyed kings and
bent our necks before emperors.
But today we kneel only to truth,
follow only beauty, and
obey only love.

-Khalil Gibran, mystic,
poet, and artist (1883-1931)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective.
If a human disagrees with you, let him live.
In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

-Carl Sagan, astronomer
and writer (1934-1996)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The appropriately beautiful or ugly sound of any word
is an illusion wrought on us
by what the word connotes.

-Max Beerbohm, writer, critic,
and caricaturist (1872-1956)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

In the presence of eternity,
the mountains are as transient
as the clouds.

-Robert Green Ingersoll,
lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil
and the ugly in us,
but our emptiness.
The hardest thing to hide is
something that is not there.

-Eric Hoffer, philosopher
and author (1902-1983)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Twin Mystery. To many people artists seem /
undisciplined and lawless. /
Such laziness, with such great gifts, /
seems little short of crime. /
One mystery is how they make / the things they make so flawless; / another, what they're doing with / their energy and time.

-Piet Hein, poet
and scientist (1905-1996)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

If people are good only because they fear punishment,
and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.

-Albert Einstein, physicist,
Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

We all wear masks, and the time comes
when we cannot remove them
without removing some of our own skin.

-Andre Berthiaume,
novelist (b. 1938)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there --
lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid.
She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again,
and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

-Mark Twain, author
and humorist (1835-1910)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Men rarely (if ever) managed to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

-Robert A. Heinlein,
science-fiction author
(1907-1988)

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

For money you can have everything it is said.

No, that is not true.

You can buy food, but not appetite;

medicine, but not health;

soft beds, but not sleep;

knowledge but not intelligence;

glitter, but not comfort;

fun, but not pleasure;

acquaintances, but not friendship;

servants, but not faithfulness;

grey hair, but not honor;

quiet days, but not peace.

The shell of all things you can get for money.

But not the kernel.

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