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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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

All Earth Extract Fundamental Give Himself Man Obligation Think
There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Concentrate Corruption Little Loss Purest Subsequent
No longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ask Bo Happen Intend Longer Now Respond Something
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Continue Country Doubt Draw Everyone First Force Foremost Man Motive Own Remain
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Been Gave Large Most One Other Part Satisfy Self Thing
Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Distance God Him Hostile Let Live Man Neutral Remain Universe
The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Crust Earth Feet Heave Our Plung Stop Under Yet
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

After Gravity Ideal Master Someday Wave
So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Effort Hiden Long Nameless Passion Spirit Tensedm Direct Thing Toward
All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Always Each Individual Live Sanctify
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Bouquet Climate Cover Extraordinary Fragnanve Huge Luxirance Soft Turn
When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Come Compelettlym Domination Death God Guidance Ourselves Surrender When
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Behind Console Himself Individual Leave May Offspring Pass Through Work
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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Critical Endless Eyes Indivisible Nature Our Pass Thread Woven
But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Battle Circumstance Day Deed External Great Power Want
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Matter Neither Spirit Stuff Universe World

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