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Everything that rises must converge.
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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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
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The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
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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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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
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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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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.
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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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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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The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
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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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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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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of complexification.
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Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God but everything is capable of becoming good.
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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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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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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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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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