Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINDriven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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The profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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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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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
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A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
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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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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
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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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