Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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.
Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
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