The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . .… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
