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.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDINGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
More Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
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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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Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
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One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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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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These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
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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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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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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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This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
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