Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe 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.
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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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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.
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We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
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It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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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.
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Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
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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.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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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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In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
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The paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
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