Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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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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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

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  Believe, Hands, Giving

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• Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

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  Moving, Ascent, Consciousness

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• Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Powerful, Energy

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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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Unity, Wish, Age

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1971). “Human energy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Blood

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• The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

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  Faith, Hope, Future

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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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Asking Why, People, Different

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• Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.

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  Spiritual, Fashion, Wall

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• To see more is to become more.

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• Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

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  Moving, Matter, Spirit

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• Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

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  Love, Heart, Unity

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “On Love & Happiness”, p.25, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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  Climate, World, May

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• We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

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  Inspirational, Change, Forever

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• Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Birthday, Growing Up, Getting Older

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• The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

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  Life, Love Is, Truth Is

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1975). “Toward The Future”, Mariner Books

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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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  Agency, Sensual, Vision

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• We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.

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  Science, Men, Soul

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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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Human Experience, Humans

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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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  Fire, Important, Power Of Love

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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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  Mean, Mold, Burning

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• The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

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  Thinking, Years, Unbroken

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• Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

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  Goal, Enough, Should

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• Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.

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  Mind, Impossible, Settings

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