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• And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Dream, Vision, World

  "Sammlung".

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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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Passion, Way Forward, Soul

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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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Suicide, Choices, Humanity

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• Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.

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  Spiritual, Nature, Truth

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• We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

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  Believe, Reality, Arms

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• You must overcome death by finding God in it.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Death, Overcoming, Finding God

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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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  Boredom, Disrespect, World

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Lying, Verbs, Whole Life

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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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Together, Facts

  "Activation of Energy: Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1976.

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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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Common, Evolution

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• To love is to approach each other center to center.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Love Is, Approach

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• We are collaborators in creation.

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  Creation, Collaborators

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• We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Giving Up, Passion, Order

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• The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

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  Real, Mean, Passion

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• The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Passion, Zest, Giving

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1968). “Writings in Time of War”

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• Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.

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  Ocean, Water, Venture

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

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• By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Virtue, Creation, Incarnation

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

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  Past, Age, Tasks

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1969). “Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification”

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• The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

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  Profound, Way, Evolution

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1972). “On love”

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• The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.

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  Mind, End Of The World, Lasts

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (pp. 273, 287 - 289), 1955.

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• The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

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  Science, Men, Mind

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• The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Dog, Pet, Doe

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• The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Tasks, World, Earth

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• Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.

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  Yield, Hands, Soul

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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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Romantic, World, May

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “On Love & Happiness”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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