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We are collaborators in creation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: May 1
Died: 1955
Died: April 10
Catholic Priest
Geologist
Paleoanthropologist
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P. Teilhard de Chardin
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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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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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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.
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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 stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.
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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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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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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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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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Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
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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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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
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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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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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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
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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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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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Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
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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 future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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