My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLove is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThat there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLove is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin