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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.
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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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
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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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Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
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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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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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The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
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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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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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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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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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We are collaborators in creation.
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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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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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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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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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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
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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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