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I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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.

PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

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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Against Least Legendry Line Must Our React Tendency We Happy
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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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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Gave Grasp Hindu Order Plunge Reflect Vast Well
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Not Pull Root Them Up
Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

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Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
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Centre Dissociate Gradual Most Primitae Survive
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.

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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Arose Defence Empirical Large Morality
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
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Enter Him Must Return Totally
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.

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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.
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Disillusioned Ironic Seem Triumphant
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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Neither Stuff
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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Atomic Everyday Profound Visible
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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Doubt Draw Everyone First Foremost Motive Own
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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After Someday Wave
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Commit Increase Like Penalize
For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
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Conception Feast Immaculate Passive
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
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East Have Been Incomparable Lie None Second Vibrate
There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
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Conviction Envisage Hold Many Oneself
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
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Buddist Deel Distance First Hunt Sacredness Unity

I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.

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