Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Love Alone Is Capable of Uniting Living Beings

  The Wisdom of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. 

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. 

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge. 

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them. 

Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being. 

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. 

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe. 

The conclusion is always the same: love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy of the world.