Everything that rises must converge.

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers

Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.