Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
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If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
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Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
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The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
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Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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