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But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Commit Crime Grow Increase Like Old Penalize
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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Already Been Deep Discover Know Nature Our Tendency
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
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples.
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Earth Individual Mankind People Person Spirit Synthesis
Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
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Direct Element Heart Less Love Market More Mothing Subtitle Trace
There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
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Conviction Envisage Good Hold Independence Many Oneself Question Sacrifice Time
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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Being Come Driven Each Force Fragment Love May Other Seek World
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Being Experience Human Spiritual
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
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All Condition Evolution General Hypothesis More Much System Theory
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge .
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Act Complete Conjugate Knowledge Phase Religion Same Science Two
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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Been Gave Large Most One Other Part Satisfy Self Thing
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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All Curve Evolution Fact Follow Illuminate Light Line Must
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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Action Conception Feast Immaculate Passive
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
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Creative Evil Failure Goodness One Our Physics Power Problem Purely Reconcile Say That
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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Able Entirely Himself Life Man Mankind Neither See Unable Unrelate Unrelated
At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
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All Dissociate Extreme Matter Most Only Our Star State Survive Temperature
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter.
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Matter Neither Spirit Stuff Universe World
At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
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Being Creation Day Dream Every Fragment Heart One Organic Principal Treasure Will
Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since.
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Death Enter God Him Love Must Return Surrender Totally
How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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Animate Breath Cell Day First Great Mystery One Our Soul
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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Joint Know Observe Product Universe
Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
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Await Ceratin Christ Ever Life Me More Must Press Term Thought Through Universe
It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
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Cross Essence Even Except Identity Intensively More Own Remain Self
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
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Confine Earth Enjoy Himself Love Order Pagan Withing
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
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Consist Live Longer Mak Mind More One Own Renounce Response Self True
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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Critical Endless Eyes Indivisible Nature Our Pass Thread Woven
Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
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Become Exact Exactly Fidelity God Hand Maintain One Ourselves Situate Them Thought

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