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• Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

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  Men, Bud, Complicated

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• Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.

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  Yield, Hands, Soul

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• We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

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  Science, Long Ago, Would Be

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

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  Tasks, World, Earth

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• Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

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  Joy, Evidence Of God, Evidence

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• Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

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  Science, Evolution, Process

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.

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  Spring, Flower, Cutting

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• Everything that rises must converge.

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  Ascent

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

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• The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

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  Science, Unity, Fundamentals

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

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  Life, Water, Wade

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• God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

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  Our Actions, Action, Milieu

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. 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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  Moving, Heart, Shadow

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

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• We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

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  Technology, Connections, Tasks

  "A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain" by Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg, www.wired.com. June 1, 1995.

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• Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.

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  Religious, Problem, Failing

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• So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

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  Moving, Reality, Serenity

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• My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

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  Psychics, Long, Path

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• The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

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  Crush, Dream, Effort

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• Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

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  Opportunity, Wind, Sea

  "The Divine Milieu". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1960.

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• If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

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  Love, Life, Molecules

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1959.

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• The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

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  Two, World, Summit

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

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  Men, Essence, Progress

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• Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

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  Unique, Soul, Individuality

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1974). “Christianity and Evolution”, Mariner Books

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• Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

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  Science, Expression, Atoms

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• The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.

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  Thinking, Reflection, Ideas

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