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Teilhard de Chardin

1881 – 1955 CE

Philosopher, geologist, Jesuit priest and paleontologist, Chardin traveled extensively across China and helped discover Peking Man. Although frequently condemned and censored by church officials and his writings banned, later popes, cardinals and theologians praised him and his ideas. Similarly reviled and revered by scientists and described as everything from a “charlatan” to “one of the century’s most prophetic thinkers,” his life manifested the cutting edge of consciousness evolution he described so clearly.

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Quotes by Teilhard de Chardin (20 quotes)

“A new step in the genesis of mind… A new domain of psychical expansion… waiting for us beyond the line where empires are set up against other empires, in an interior totalisation of the world upon itself… a spirit of the earth.”

from Phenomenon of Man

Chapters: 80. A Golden Age

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“By means of all created things, without exception, 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.”

from Divine Milieu

Chapters: 81. Journey Without Goal

Themes: Delusion

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“death is the regular, indispensable condition of the replacement of one individual by another along a phyletic stem. Death - the essential lever in the mechanism and upsurge of life.”

from Phenomenon of Man

Chapters: 24. Unnecessary Baggage

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“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.”

from Divine Milieu

Chapters: 59. The Gardening of Spirit

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“It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.”

from Phenomenon of Man

Chapters: 49. No Set Mind

Themes: Fate / Destiny

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“Modern man no longer knows what to do with the time and the potentialities he has unleashed. We groan under the burden of this wealth.”

from Phenomenon of Man

Chapters: 80. A Golden Age

Themes: Time Wealth

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“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”

from Phenomenon of Man

Chapters: 39. Oneness

Themes: Skillful Means

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“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.”

from Divine Milieu

Chapters: 58. Goals Without Means

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“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.”

from Divine Milieu

Chapters: 69. No Enemy

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“The consciousness of each of us is evolution looking at itself and reflecting upon itself. With that very simple view… a new light – inexhaustibly harmonious – bursts upon the world, radiating from ourselves.”

from Phenomenon of Man

Chapters: 54. Planting Well

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“the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.”

from Divine Milieu

Chapters: 25. The Mother of All Things

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“the most unexpected is perhaps what we should most expect.”

from Phenomenon of Man

Chapters: 48. Unlearning

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“Time is your boat not your home.
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.”

from Divine Milieu

Chapters: 34. An Unmoored Boat

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“To overcome every obstacle to unite our beings without loss of individual personality, there is a single force which nothing can replace and nothing destroy, a force which urges us forward and draws us upwards…”

from Phenomenon of Man

Chapters: 34. An Unmoored Boat

Themes: Obstacles

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“We are evolution.”

from Phenomenon of Man

Chapters: 12. This Over That

Themes: Evolution

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

from Divine Milieu

Chapters: 10. The Power of Goodness

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“We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.”

from Divine Milieu

Chapters: 67. Three Treasures

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“your ideas mature gradually—let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don’t try to force them on… accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.”

from Phenomenon of Man

Chapters: 76. The Soft and Flexible

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“By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagine it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers.”

Themes: Sacred World

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“In each of us, the entire history of the world is reflected. And however autonomous our soul, it is indebted to an inheritance worked upon it from all sides—before it came into being—by the totality of the earth's energies.”

from Divine Milieu

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