For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINMan 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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No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
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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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No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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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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The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.
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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
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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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How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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