Spiritual Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

11 Spiritual quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s eleven bite‑size ideas weave together the cosmos and the soul. Each line hints at a larger tapestry, yet stays grounded enough for a quick read.

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“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are are spiritual beings immersed in a spiritual experience”

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond…

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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

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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.

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We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual…

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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…

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I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the…

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Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float,…

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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,…

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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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The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these are not thrown open to a few…

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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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