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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

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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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We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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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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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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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
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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Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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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 profoundly ‘atomic’ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.
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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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It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a . We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
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Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.
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Characteristic Deplore Exactly Human Invasion Irresistible Modern More Nothing One Surely Technology Time Welcome Whether World

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