George Leonard Quotes

… the action of natural selection upon Man has ... been essentially diminished through the operation of social conditions

We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.

Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.

Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.

A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.

We know that for the last 300 or 400 years, the size of human bodies is growing. Now what happened is that we suddenly, in history, have the backward process. We have these great Greek athletes, we have ultra-powerful Roman soldiers. You look at the size of the Roman soldier who has to carry all this ammunition. You're talking about 300,000 Arnold Schwartzeneggers.

Cornelius Castoriadis, the great French social philosopher of Greek origin, was asked once by an exasperated interviewer: "What do you want, Mr. Castoriadis - to change humanity?" He answered: "No, God forbid, I only want humanity to change itself, as it has done so many times in the past." I would be inclined to answer the same way.

I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

We're finally becoming aware of a process that has been unconscious since human experience began. From the start, humans have perceived a Birth Vision, and then after birth have gone unconscious, aware of only the vaguest of intuitions. At first in the early day of human history, the distance between what we intended and what we actually accomplished was very great, and then, over time, the distance has closed. Now we're the verge of remembering everything.

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.