“To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?”

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

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.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.

These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

I feel like whatever is meant is meant. I feel like this is already written.

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.