From Natural Selection to Conscious Evolution to Total Consciousness

Osho,
Is nature interested in supporting enlightenment? Will it at least help?

“Man cannot leave it to nature, because man has become conscious.

“You cannot leave it to nature now. That’s why man has created religions. No animal has any religion. There is no need: they are not asking, they are not in a hurry. In nature everything is unhurried — moving so slowly as if not moving at all; continuously repeating the same pattern, infinitely repeating the same circle.

“Man has become conscious. Man has become conscious of time, and the moment you become conscious of time, you are thrown out of eternity.

“Then you are in a hurry. So as man’s consciousness evolves more, he is more hurried, he becomes more and more time conscious. Go to a primitive society: they are not time conscious. The more civilized a society, the more time conscious. A primitive society is nearer nature: unhurried, it moves slowly. Just as nature moves, it moves.

“The more you become civilized, the more you become conscious of time. Really, time can be the criterion: how civilized a society is can be known by how time conscious it is. Then you are in a hurry, then you cannot wait, then you cannot leave it to nature. You have to take it…