The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINThe world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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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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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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The only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
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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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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
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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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When death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
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For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
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If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
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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.
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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
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