In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes From Pierre Teilhard de Chardin It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wade water life The dog knows, but does not know that he knows. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin pet dog doe We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin connections technology tasks Joy is the sheer evidence of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin evidence evidence-of-god joy Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin mirrors men science The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin evolution profound way Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin capable becoming 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 power of unification can never be achieved? Pierre Teilhard de Chardin drawing eye heart The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it? Pierre Teilhard de Chardin crush effort dream As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal". Pierre Teilhard de Chardin stress religious christian At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin soul lord heart The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin zest passion giving The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin tasks earth world The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin unity fundamentals science We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin journey spiritual may He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin fragility reality facts It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master break down doors to enter His own home? Without earthquake, or thunderclap: the flame has lit up the whole world from within. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin inspiration faith home This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of "complexification." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin eye discovery science No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin psychics woven thinking What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin essence roots mind
