But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet.
Life is short and progress is slow.
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.
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