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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Buddist Deel Distance First Hunt Kind Life Respect Sacredness Unity
I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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Came Country Follow Raw Region Star Steam Myself Universe
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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Action Conception Feast Immaculate Passive
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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Being Come Driven Each Force Fragment Love May Other Seek World
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 Impression Order Plunge Reflect Religion Sun Vast Well
When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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Come Compelettlym Domination Death God Guidance Ourselves Surrender When
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
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Awake Before Cosmic Earth Energy Long Manifestation Must No Parallel Produce Thought Today
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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Alone Being Capable Complete Fulfil Live Love Such Them Ultimate Way
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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Affinity Draw Element Link Love Together World
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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Earth Individual Mankind People Person Spirit Synthesis
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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Believe Else Everything Fear Less One Opinion Persecution Thing
We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Assilimate Experience Heaven Himself Home Impact Manifest Only Permanent Sad Truth
For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Administering Christian God Great Landowner Look Ninety Outside Percent This View
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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Advance Always Condition Continue Humanity Hundred More Probably Still Thousand Year
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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Country Enjoy Greatly Influ Island Little Made One Paradise Real Spite
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Eccircle Friendship May Round World

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