Tag: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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 others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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 sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‘Le Milieu Divin,’ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin