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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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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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There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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Concentrate Corruption Little Loss Purest Subsequent
The soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers – extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.
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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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Back Characteristic Childhood Familiar Far Go However Into More Nothing Seems
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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Critical Endless Eyes Indivisible Nature Our Pass Thread Woven
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up
Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
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Ancient Imagine Mineral Mobile More Much Science Supple World
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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Matter Neither Spirit Stuff Universe World
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.
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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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