For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
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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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By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross.
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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.
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Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
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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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If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.
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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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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
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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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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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However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
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