This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINA sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
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At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
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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.
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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
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Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
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