Transcend & Include

In our personal evolution, it’s not helpful to deny or judge past stages of life, places we’ve been, the person we once were.  Even if they no longer serve, we acknowledge that they were necessary to bring us to where we are today.  Can we instead learn to include and integrate every stage and state, even as we strive to grow and transcend our former selves?   And if so, what does this mean for the evolution of the world?