"We are not human beings having a..." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Teilhard de Chardin inverts our usual perspective on the relationship between spirit and matter.

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“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”

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“Above all trust in the slow work of God.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”

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“The day will come when after harnessing space the winds the tides and gravitation we shall harness for God the energies of love.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.”

— John of the Cross

“The world is a traveller's inn, not his dwelling place.”

— Rumi

“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”

— Rumi

“This world of ours is a dream within a dream — do not take it for real, and do not deny it.”

— Rumi

“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters.”

— Thomas Merton

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

— Rumi

“The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.”

— Plutarch

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

— Meister Eckhart