God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes From Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin sea opportunity wind We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet 'as a whole.' Pierre Teilhard de Chardin psychics science reality God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God? Pierre Teilhard de Chardin god-love doe world Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin individuality unique soul Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin team couple life To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin clothes writing science Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin gears self heart Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin failing problem religious The past has revealed to me the structure of the future. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin structure statistics past The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin spirit matter reality In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin spiritual-life process spiritual God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin milieu our-actions action Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin taken men two And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to confuse and neutralise them but to reinforce them in the living unity of a single tissue. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin unity science thinking Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin atoms expression science The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin passion real mean We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin passion giving-up order Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ultras paralysis catastrophe More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin generator manifest ideas Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin cutting flower spring
