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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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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
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The 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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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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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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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
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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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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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