Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes From Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin nature truth spiritual Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin shadow heart moving Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin settings mind impossible The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin empowering partners possession Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin mysterious force love-is Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin may romantic world The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin choices suicide humanity What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin audacity problem lying To love is to approach each other center to center. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin approach love-is love The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin way-forward passion soul The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin boredom disrespect world The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself Pierre Teilhard de Chardin unbroken years thinking The future is more beautiful than all the pasts. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin beautiful past Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin faith god peace The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin end-of-the-world lasts mind Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin yield soul hands Above all, trust in the slow work of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin patience Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin teamwork success inspirational Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin evolution process science The whole life lies in the verb seeing. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin whole-life verbs lying
