Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.

A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

The human race is getting into a spiritual way of thinking, even if they don't know about it, because this is the natural need of the human being.

Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.

The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.

Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.

The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

Our children take our level of vibration and raise it even higher. This is how we, as humans, continue evolution.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.

Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

In order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose.

The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions.

A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.