Unity Church of Portland

Today's Inspiration

Nowadays, with the advent of global warming and the palpable fear of conflict and upheaval, we have become focused on the question of survival. Most of us are concerned with figuring out how we are going to make it through the tremendous challenges that are facing us. And all things considered, this makes sense. But there is an enormous difference between being concerned with how I or we are going to survive and thinking seriously about how I or we are going to actually evolve at the deepest level. Survival and evolution are not necessarily the same thing. It’s easy to experience concern about our survival, but to experience the urgency about the necessity for higher development that is felt in the deepest part of ourselves, in the soul, is another matter altogether. Wanting to evolve at the level of consciousness is not merely wanting to survive—it is experiencing a spiritually motivated need for vertical development to occur on an individual and collective level in such a way that the world as we know it changes dramatically from the inside out. (Andrew Cohen)