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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: May 1
Died: 1955
Died: April 10
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P. Teilhard de Chardin
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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
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We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
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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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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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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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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
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He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
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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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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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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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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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As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the human religious ideal inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the christian religious ideal
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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.
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The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.
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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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The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth.
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When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.
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The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
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