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“Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.”

“Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.”

Thinking Inspirational Mind Sometimes Suffering Universe Consciousness Known Creative Movement Wind Evolution Conscious Boundaries Unconscious Quantum Sail Monkeys Processing Monkey Mind

Author:Amit Goswami

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”

“All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.”

America Suffering Teaching Evolution Creationism Bryan

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution.”

Firsts Science Suffering Order Brain Principles Special Movement Evolution Disease Opposites Etc Faculty Dissolution Nomenclature

Book:Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: On Epilepsy and epileptiform convulsions

Source: Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: On Epilepsy and epileptiform convulsions

“What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.”

Thinking Real Suffering Wish Poor Stupid Evolution Higher Tragedy Terror Terrorism Dumb Beast Sensitivity Death Wish

Author:Mario Puzo

“If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.”

Ifs Pain Spiritual Suffering Goal Levels Consciousness Evolution Higher Advise Higher Level Spiritual Evolution

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.”

Firsts Book Would Be America Suffering Three Written Teaching Evolution Scary Verses Genesis

Author:William Jennings Bryan