There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others that have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind. — 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… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
By the sole fact of his entering into 'Thought,' man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
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 its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share
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
