Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinDo not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFrom an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIsolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinAt a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin