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 More Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes From Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin inspirational love life We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin positive-thinking spiritual life Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin giving believe hands The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin generations giving hands Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin powerful energy love Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ascent consciousness moving The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin unity age wish We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin change forever inspirational 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 asking-why different people Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wall fashion spiritual The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin future hope faith 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. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin unity heart love The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin cute-best-friend funny-friend friendship There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin agency vision sensual 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 brushes paint heart We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin soul men science Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin spiritual love-is blood At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin distance profound thinking Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin climate may world 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 helping-others self inspirational
