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 The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin molecules stars science From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin views men moving A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin spring men night Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin community research together Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin together discovery science Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin psychics reflection life From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in a state of purity, but always more or less granulated (even in light) energy nowadays represents for science the most primitive form of universal stuff. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin light may science Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wine suffering reality All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin communion men past We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone 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 The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin universe love-is adventure love At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin day unity god heart We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin day passion power waiting A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin great music nature beauty Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin nothing smile grandfather life
