Quotes About Teilhard

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

Teilhard shared with Whitehead, for example, the conviction that our own mental activity is an aspect of nature, not something that occurs outside of nature.

Teilhard says we must be ready to "try everything." This hope requires a more adventurous moral life than what we find in classical religious patterns of piety, but Teilhard was looking for a morality rooted in hope—not only for humanity but for the whole universe. His attention to the cosmos and its future can cause confusion to theologians of "the eternal present" who have not yet fully awakened to the fact of an unfinished universe.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

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

Totally grasped by the divine eros, Teilhard vowed to steep himself in the sea of matter, to bathe in its fiery water, to plunge into Earth where it is deepest and most violent, to struggle in its currents, and to drink of its waters (HM, 72). Filled with impassioned love for Sophia, he dedicated himself body and soul to the ongoing work needed to transform the cosmos to a new level of consciousness and to transformative love

Teilhard believed that each person is a universe wherein the dust of experience is gathered into a unity.

In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.