"Whenever a feeling is voiced with truth and frankness, whenever a deed is the clear expression of sentiment, a mysterious and far-reaching influence is exerted. At first it acts on those who are inwardly receptive. But the circle grows larger and larger."
I Ching or The Book of Changes - Richard Wilhelm, translator
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WRITINGS IN TIME OF WAR
Pierre Teilhard deChardin
Written at the front and in the trenches during World War I, these essays contain the core of Teilhard deChardin's thought. His central theme is the unity of all life.
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"All living beings are but one being."
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"If the Will of God is seen with sufficient intensity and realism it positively transforms the universe. It animates and softens all that we suffer; it stimulates and directs all that we initiate; it abolishes chance. It makes it possible for us to live, physically and for ever, within the divine Unity."
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"God has made good will the basis upon which our supernatural growth is founded. The pure heart, the right intention, are the organs of the higher life towards which all the soul's hopes are directed."
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"Like knots spaced out along a cord, or like the folds into which a single curtain falls, or the eddies forming on one and the same surface, everything that moves and lives in the universe represents, in one particular aspect, the modifications of one and the same thing."
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"Only a long and patient struggle can teach us the operative power of faith and show us what it can achieve."
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"The condition of human progress is that men must at last cease to live in isolation; they must learn to recognize a common goal for their lives…and the fiery energies still undoubtedly smouldering in men must be fanned into flame and directed in common towards that end – not in an individual, not in a national, nor in a social, but in a HUMAN effort."
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"Through God, all bodies come together, exert influence upon one another and sustain one another in the unity of the all-embracing sphere."
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"In the domain of morality the Divine and the Terrestrial meet and are fused into one."
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"Peace is the awareness of Unity."
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"Every encounter that brings me a caress, that spurs me on, that comes as a shock to me, that bruises or breaks me, is a contact with the hand of God, which assumes countless forms and yet always commands our worship. Every element of which I am made up is an overflow from God."
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"The deeper I descend into myself, the more I find God at the heart of my being."
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"Human monads are atoms immersed in, nourished by, and carried along by one and the same unfathomable primitive substance; they are elements that are combined and given a special character by a network of intimate interconnections, in order so to constitute a higher unity."
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"Seek in utter darkness the dawn of God."
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"If man believes with sufficient vigour in the force that is creating him, he will soon find that, for all its terrifying uncertainty, the future provides him with a solid footing as he advances."
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"There is in the universe only one single individuality (one single monad), that of the whole."
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"I believe that the world records everything good and useful that is done in it; it notes and assimilates to itself every movement and every impulse that is fitted to harmonize with its own becoming, of whose real goodness there can be no doubt."
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"From the pantheist point of view, everything in the universe is seen to be radically One, Absolute, and Divine."
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"Blessings on the philosophy that shows us that the cohesion of things is destined to be completed!"
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"The Real incessantly reawakens us to an impassioned awareness of a wider expansion and an all-embracing unity."
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"Every being can subsist and hold together only through confluence with others."
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"People are called to form one single Body, in an intensely intimate divinization."
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"The more we lose all foothold in the darkness and instability of the future, the more deeply we penetrate into God."
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"Precisely because there exists in all beings a common centre, scattered and separable though they are in appearance, they meet together at a deeper level. The more they perfect themselves naturally and sanctify themselves in grace, the more they come together and fuse into one, within the single, unifying Centre to which they aspire: and we may call that Centre equally well the point upon which they converge, or the ambiance in which they float. All these reachings-out that draw beings together and unify them constitute the axis of all individual and collective life."
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"This is the classic teaching: God, who is 'his own being' is at the same time 'the being of all'."
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"In everything in me that has subsistence and resonance, in everything that enlarges me from within, that arouses me, attracts me, or wounds me from without, it is you, Lord, who are at work upon me – it is you who mould and spiritualize my formless clay – you that change me into yourself."
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