Reality Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

10 Reality quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Teilhard’s vision fuses evolution with spirituality. These ten lines provide a concise glimpse of his profound, if dense, perspective on the unfolding of reality.

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He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest…

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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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We only have to look around us to see how complexity ... and psychic "temperature" are still rising: and rising no longer…

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However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy…

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Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us…

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Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself…

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We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on…

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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,…

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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…

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So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their…

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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,…

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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation…

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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,…

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The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.”

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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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It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building…

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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

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You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

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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…

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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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