{"id":691,"date":"2006-10-06T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/evolution-is-happening-through-us-not.html"},"modified":"2006-10-06T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T15:15:00","slug":"evolution-is-happening-through-us-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/evolution-is-happening-through-us-not.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Evolution is Happening Through Us, Not to Us&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;WE are the saviors. We are the help. We are the hands and ears and eyes of heaven and earth. Evolution is happening through us, not to us. We are like the leaves on the maple tree outside my window. Some of us are green. Some have changed to yellow, and some have evolved to red. But unlike the leaves, we can evolve ourselves forward through conscious action and discipline. We can move beyond powerlessness, transform suffering, create new neural pathways, new ways of being. This, too, is in our hands. And we can take it on or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Jan Phillips is an inspirational writer and thinker whose own quest has led her &#8220;into and out of a religious community, across the U.S. on a Honda motorcycle, and around the world on a one-woman peace pilgrimage.&#8221; Her most recent book is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Divining-Body-Reclaim-Holiness-Physical\/dp\/1594730806\/sr=8-1\/qid=1160168472\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-7638272-0731123?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Divining the Body: Reclaim the Holiness of Your Physical Self.&#8217;<\/a> View her website and subscribe to her Museletter by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janphillips.com\/museletter.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;WE are the saviors. We are the help. 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