Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

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• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

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  Believe, Hands, Giving

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• Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

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  Moving, Ascent, Consciousness

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• Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Blood

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• The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

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  Faith, Hope, Future

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• Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

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  Love, Powerful, Energy

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• The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.

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  Unity, Wish, Age

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1971). “Human energy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.

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  Spiritual, Fashion, Wall

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• In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, 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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  Asking Why, People, Different

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• Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

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  Moving, Matter, Spirit

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• 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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  Love, Heart, Unity

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “On Love & Happiness”, p.25, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

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  Spiritual, Human Experience, Humans

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• To see more is to become more.

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• There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

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  Agency, Sensual, Vision

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• Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.

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  Mind, Impossible, Settings

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• Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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  Birthday, Growing Up, Getting Older

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• God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

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  Heart, Paint, Brushes

  "Your Occasional Pope" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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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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  Inspirational, Helping Others, Self

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• Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

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  God, Faith, Peace

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• Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.

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  Climate, World, May

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• The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

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  Thinking, Years, Unbroken

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• Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.

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  Together, Woven, Cosmos

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• We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

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  Inspirational, Change, Forever

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• We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.

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  Science, Men, Soul

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