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The Creative Urge to Evolve

In his Weekly quotes, Andrew Cohen, Founder of EnlgihtenNext and Emergence_1_1
What is Enligtenment magazine, offerred this quote he entitled,
A Mysterious Urge to Evolve:

When time began, for an unknown reason, something came from nothing. Suddenly, an impulse emerged—the impulse to become, to create, to evolve. This urge to take form gradually became the whole universe, ultimately including you and me as we are right now. And as human beings we experience this evolutionary impulse on many levels. At the gross physical level, we feel it as the sexual impulse, the powerful urge to procreate. At a higher level, a cognitive level, we experience this same principle as the uniquely human desire to know, to understand, to create. And at the highest level, the level of consciousness, we experience it as the spiritual impulse, the mysterious urge to evolve as consciousness. This movement in each and every one of us is not other than the one evolutionary impulse that is driving the engine of creation. When you feel the irresistible compulsion to develop at the level of consciousness, it is the big bang that you are experiencing, stirring in the depths of your own soul. ~ Andrew Cohen

To me, this quote speaks to the urge to create, the creative urge to evolve, the evoltuionary call to create - however we look at it. The place where the "evolutionary impulse" is the emergent, creative impulse. Creation is made up cre ators creating and creators emerging.

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