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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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
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
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Itself Residue Tangible Universe Vast Way Whole
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

All Attitude Cause Christian Forget Hope Human Itself Love Making Neither Organise Society
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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Accident Accordance Born Earth Evolution General Law Most One Probably Scarcely
All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Act All Been Habit Ingrain Know Me Sort Thanks
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

All Battle Day Deed Great Live Power Spend Us Wait
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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Biologically Conciallation Element Necessary Paradoxicate Unity Utopian Whole
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
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Alone Being Capable Complete Fulfil Live Love Such Them Ultimate Way
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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After Gravity Ideal Master Someday Wave
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 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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Ceiling Country Expres Finally Like Man Partition Penetrate Through
No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.
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Human Molecule Produce Substance Universe
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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Atomic Character Everyday Experience Profound Universe Visible
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.
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East Greatness Have Been Incomparable Lie None Passion Religion Second Vibrate
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

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