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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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Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.
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The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
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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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The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
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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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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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Everything that rises must converge.
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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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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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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
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Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.
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A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
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