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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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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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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Ask Bo Happen Intend Longer Now Respond Something
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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Came Country Follow Raw Region Star Steam Myself Universe
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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Been Gave Large Most One Other Part Satisfy Self Thing
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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Believe Else Everything Fear Less One Opinion Persecution Thing
The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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Act Contemplate Embrace Evolution Future Knowledge Only Past
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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Buddist Deel Distance First Hunt Kind Life Respect Sacredness Unity
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Commit Crime Grow Increase Like Old Penalize
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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Analyze Difficult Final Good Happen Itself Question Some Transmute
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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Animate Breath Cell Day First Great Mystery One Our Soul

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