Human experience Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

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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…

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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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“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…

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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 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.

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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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“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 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…

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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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“Naval officers were not mother's sort; very few people were her sort in those days, and that was her trouble - a very authentic, human, and plausible difficulty, which made Mother's life one of much suffering. She did not have the self-assurance for wide human experience; she needed to feel liked, admired, surrounded by the approved and familiar. Her haughtiness…

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“know that I’m not a human being having a spiritual experience. I’m a spiritual being having a human experience.”

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Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

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The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the…

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“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.”

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“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. She did not think she would have to pay a price. She simply accepted the rights of her royal position and performed no duties…

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