The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More Quotes From Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin spirit matter moving Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin alleys isolation blind The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin truth-is love-is life A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin finals love-is life Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin getting-older growing-up birthday Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin cosmos woven together Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin goal enough should The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin spiritual together people We are collaborators in creation. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin collaborators creation Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin perception life-is ordinary By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers Pierre Teilhard de Chardin burning mold mean To see more is to become more. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin You must overcome death by finding God in it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin finding-god overcoming death It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin staring difficult faces He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin christian long believe That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin evolution common science Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin spiritual pregnancy love You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin human-experience humans spiritual And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin vision dream world We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin arms believe reality
