Quotes About Unfolding

The envisaged self is the next stage in human evolution, and it will be born explicitly from the refusion of experienced spirit and experienced flesh—not as a "means" toward any externally established "end," but as a consciously perceived process of evolution unfolding itself. The primary urge of patriarchy has been to control and repress life toward some profitable end, rather than to allow this self-perceiving unfolding to occur.

You have to give yourself the space to write a lot without a destination

To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance.

What one repeatedly finds in Derrida's work is the uncanny effect by which one is invited to sense the unfolding of all of his thinking starting out from anywhere, from any idea, any word, any thought that happens to be at issue. 'Deconstruction' is perhaps the best-known word for this.

History is less the evolution of humanity than the unfolding of facets of human nature.

More Phase Transitions This principle applies just as much to the spread of infectious diseases or magnetic polarity as to forest fires. It is essentially the same process unfolding.

Reality is not the result of a process; it is an explosion.

There is, plainly, no deep logic to the unfolding of time.

Maybe the moment I decided to come back to Mendocino, this was always going to happen. All of this, just the way it is unfolding.

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

We are all created as self-developing organisms. It's never too late to become whom you were meant to be. Even the universe is expanding. So, too, is human understanding. The development of faith is a part of God's unfolding, emerging Spirit. Staying static is not our destiny. Transformation is.