Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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Driven 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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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
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Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life.
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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.
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them.
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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
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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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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.
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Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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