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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.
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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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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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 reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
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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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Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
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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 future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.
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By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers
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Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
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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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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 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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The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.
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The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
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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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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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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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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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The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
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