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“We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.”

“Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.”

Growth Teacher Sorrow Evidence Latter Unhappiness Interpretation Great Teacher

Author:Eleanora Duse

“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?”

“Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.”

People Ifs Purpose Names Grows Growth Existence Moral Source Becoming Higher Evidence Worthy Improvement Divinity Existence Of God Higher Purpose Moral Growth

Book:The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs

Source: The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs

“Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.”

Might Courses Growth Taken Evidence Rate Population Optimum

Book:Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle

Source: Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle

“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”

Ifs Real States Process Growth Change Race History Tree Revolution Evidence Trauma Rings Circles Invisible Cards Layers Composing Tissues Carts Swelling New Growth

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, millennia of evidence also indicates that needed attempts to stabilize such societies run counter to the expectations of the populace and of interest groups. For that reason, such attempts at stabilization frequently fail.”

Reason Running Growth Interest Failing Expectations Evidence Infinite

Author:Arthur Demarest

“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.”

Humans Growth Change Human Beings Baby Evidence Assuming Active Impulse Reasonable Newborn Actualization Newborn Baby

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Growth is the only evidence of life.”

Life Growth Change Existence Positive Evidence Personal Growth Starting Anew Change And Growth Change Growth

Book:Apologia pro Vita Sua

Source: Apologia pro Vita Sua