#Pierre de Chardin

[thirdity]

One could say that the whole of life lies in seeing — if not ultimately, at least essentially.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Human Phenomenon

[victusinveritas]

[noosphe-re]

...the history of the living world can be summarised as the elaboration of ever more perfect eyes within a cosmos in which there is always something more to be seen.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

[givemearmstopraywith]

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, "The Spiritual Energy of Suffering," in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Writings, selected by Ursula King

[sundowneyeye]

«La historia de mi vida interior es la historia de esta búsqueda, orientada hacia realidades cada vez más universales y perfectas. En el fondo, mi tendencia natural profunda ha permanecido absolutamente firme desde que me conozco»

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Mon Univers (1917)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Another three musings for Earth Day:

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

~ William Shakespeare

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"The word ‘matter’ remains a dry, inhuman, and purely intellectual concept… How different was the former image of matter—the Great Mother—that could encompass and express the profound emotional meaning of the Great Mother.”

~ Jung

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"Sons and daughters of the earth, steep yourself in the sea of matter, bathe in the fiery waters for it is the source of your life and your youthfulness. You thought you could do without it because the power of thought has been kindled in you? You hoped that the more thoroughly you rejected the tangible, the closer you would be to spirit: that you would be more divine if you lived in the world of pure thought, or at least more angelic if you fled the corporeal? Well, you were like to have perished of hunger. you must have oil for your limbs, blood for your veins, water for your soul, the world of reality for your intellect: do you see that the very law of your own nature makes these a necessity for you?"

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

(Thanks Ian Sanders)

[joemerl]

"We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience."

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[julesofnature]

“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.” ~Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

[wayti-blog]

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

[thirdity]

To be more is to be more united... But unity grows, and we will affirm this again only if it is supported by an increase of consciousness of vision.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Human Phenomenon

[quotelr]

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

[noosphe-re]

The end of the world : the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality. The end of the world : the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, fulfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega. The end of the world : critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and escape.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man

[givemearmstopraywith]

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ 1947

[sundowneyeye]

«Todo un círculo anterior de mí mismo está absolutamente muerto (porque la vaguedad es ahora mucho más profunda interiormente)»

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Accomplir l'Homme

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ (detail) Botticelli ca. 1490-92

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"In short: who can take away suffering without entering it?" ~ Henri J. M. Nouwen, 'The Wounded Healer' + "Is there suffering upon this new earth? On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man' + "If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete." ~ Viktor E. Frankl, 'Man's Search for Meaning' + "I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more." ~ Anne Frank + "We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [thanks to Ian Sanders]

[soiledlight]

"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