Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
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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’.
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A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music.
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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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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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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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There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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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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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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