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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them... All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Love Alone

Topic: Love, Compassion, & Kindness

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. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
Christianity
The Phenomenon of Man

De Chardin, Pierre Teilhard. The Phenomenon of Man. Translated by Bernard Joseph Wall, Harper Torchbooks, The Cloister Library, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1961.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Phenomenon of Man

The Phenomenon of Man (Le phénomène humain) is a 1955 book written by the French philosopher, paleontologist and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this work, Teilhard describes evolution as a process that leads to increasing complexity, culminating in the unification of consciousness.

Additional Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

“A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.”

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [The Phenomenon of Man (Le phénomène humain), 1955].

“If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form…. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.”

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [The Phenomenon of Man (Le phénomène humain), 1955].

“The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. Beyond the vibrations with which we are familiar, the rainbow-like range of its colours is still in full growth. But, for all the fascination that the lower shades have for us, it is only towards the “ultra” that the creation of light advances. It is in these invisible and, we might almost say, immaterial zones that we can look for true initiation into unity. The depths we attribute to matter are no more than the reflection of the peaks of spirit.”

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [“The Evolution of Chastity” (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)].

“What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. And so we cannot avoid this conclusion: it is biologically evident that to gain control of passion and so make it serve spirit must be a condition of progress. Sooner or later, then, the world will brush aside our incredulity and take this step: because whatever is the more true comes out into the open, and whatever is better is ultimately realized. The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [“The Evolution of Chastity” (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)].

Resources

  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [WikiQuote website]
  • The Phenomenon of Man (Le phénomène humain) is a 1955 book, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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