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• The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Suicide, Choices, Humanity

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• The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Dog, Pet, Doe

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• Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Together, Facts

  "Activation of Energy: Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1976.

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• The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Beautiful, Past

  "The Making of a Mind: Letters From a Soldier-Priest 1914-1919 (Letter dated September 5, 1919)". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1965.

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• The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.

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  Passion, Way Forward, Soul

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• The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

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  Passion, Zest, Giving

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1968). “Writings in Time of War”

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• Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.

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  Love Is, Mysterious, Force

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “On Love & Happiness”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

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  Science, Common, Evolution

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• The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Past, Age, Tasks

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1969). “Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification”

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• To love is to approach each other center to center.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Love Is, Approach

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• We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Giving Up, Passion, Order

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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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  Christian, Believe, Long

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• The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Lying, Verbs, Whole Life

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• Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow this is what evolution is.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Light, Order

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

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• Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.

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  Spiritual, Nature, Truth

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• We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

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  Believe, Reality, Arms

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• The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

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  Boredom, Disrespect, World

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc

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• By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

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  Virtue, Creation, Incarnation

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You must overcome death by finding God in it.

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  Death, Overcoming, Finding God

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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. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

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  Life, Couple, Team

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

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• The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.

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  Mind, End Of The World, Lasts

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (pp. 273, 287 - 289), 1955.

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• The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

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  Profound, Way, Evolution

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1972). “On love”

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• Faith has need of the whole truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Needs, Whole, Whole Truth

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• Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.

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  Ocean, Water, Venture

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

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• 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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  Romantic, World, May

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “On Love & Happiness”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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