Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

As we are - the world is.

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being .... We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science and economy.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world.

The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth.

In reality, on the grand scale, in my opinion... we are actually all responsible for each other.

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to confuse and neutralise them but to reinforce them in the living unity of a single tissue.

The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

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

Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.

We don't, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations.

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

Right, we've got these institutions of media, these financial institutions, we have the means of distribution, we have the means of production, we have all these markets and maxims in place. How do we alter the consciousness, the fundamental unifying field? How do we influence change on that level to all of the world?

Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity within and across national lines... If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.

This is a time of great change in the world but America's always been a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope to peoples around the globe and that's what it must continue to be.

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.