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Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
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
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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 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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The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.
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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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The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.
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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
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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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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 more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
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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 age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.
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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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The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
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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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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
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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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Everything that rises must converge.
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