God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMy 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 ChardinThe Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinAnd this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPsychogenesis 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.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin