Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1881-1955, French Jesuit priest
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”
“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.”
“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
“Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.”
“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.”
“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”
“The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.”
“It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.”
“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”
“We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.”
“The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed”
“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.”
“He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.”
“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.”