From all these discoveries, each of which plunges him a little deeper into the ocean of energy, the mystic derives an unalloyed delight, and his thirst for them is unquenchable. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote – “So many things which once had distressed or revolted him…”
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — are seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the Majestic Reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, […]
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote – “When your presence flooded me with its light…”
When your presence flooded me with its light I hoped that within it I might find Ultimate Reality at its most tangible. But now that I have in fact laid hold on you, you who are utter consistency, and feel myself borne by you, I realize that my deepest hidden desire was not to possess you, but to be possessed. […]
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote – “Like the monist I plunge into the all-inclusive One…”
Like the monist I plunge into the all-inclusive One. But the one is so perfect that as it receives me and I lose myself in it, I can find in it the ultimate perfection of my own individuality. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote – “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity…”
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 (1881 – 1955)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience…”
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote – “We must try to penetrate our most secret self…”
We must try to penetrate our most secret self, and examine our being from all sides… And so, for the first time in my life perhaps (although I am supposed to meditate every day!), I took the lamp and, leaving the zone of everyday occupations and relationships where everything seems clear, I went down into my inmost self, to the […]