"You are not a human being in search……" — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"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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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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99 Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love,…
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different…
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to…
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it…
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are…
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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