Quotes from Teilhard de Chardin

The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and graviation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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.

We must not forget that the human soul, however independently created our philosophy represents it as being, is inseparable in its birth and in its growth from the universe into which it is born. - Teilhard de Chardin

Algún día cuando hayamos dominado los vientos, las olas, las mareas y la gravedad, aprenderemos a utilizar las energías del amor. Entonces por segunda vez en la historia del mundo, la humanidad habrá descubierto el fuego.

Ya dominamos la energía del viento, de los mares, del sol. Pero el día que el hombre sepa dominar la energía del amor será algo tan importante como el descubrimiento del fuego

La única religión aceptable para el hombre es la que le enseñará ante todo, a conocer, amar y servir apasionadamente al Universo del cual es el elemento más importante.

Joy is the most infallible sign of the Presence of God.

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

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

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

I may not be a smart man but I know what love is

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 the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.