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In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.
The Divine Milieu (1960)
We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet.
The Heart of Matter (1950)
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.
The Divine Milieu (1960)
Biologists or philosophers cannot conceive a biosphere or noosphere because they are unwilling to abandon a certain narrow conception of individuality. Nevertheless, the step must be taken.
A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe (1936)
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
This soul can only be a conspiracy of individuals
Marilyn Ferguson in The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)
The fire spreads in ever widening circles till finally the whole planet is covered with incandescence.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
Omega must be independent of the collapse of the forces with which evolution is woven.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
A glow ripples outward from the first spark of conscious reflection.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
The Divine Milieu (1960)
The day will come when, after harnessing space, 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.
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.
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.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
Peace cannot mean anything but a HIGHER PROCESS OF CONQUEST. ... The world is bound to belong to its most active elements.
Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world. ... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.
If instinct is a variable dimension, the instincts will... create, beneath their complexity, a growing system.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
This book deals with man solely as a phenomenon; but... with the whole pheneomenon...
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
If THIS book is to be properly understood, it must be read not as a work on metaphysics, still less as a... theological essay, but purely and simply as a scientific treatise.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
If the story of life is no more than a movement of consciousness veiled by morphology, it is inevitable that... in the proximity of man, the 'psychical' make-ups seem to reach the borders of intelligence.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
Discontinuity in continuity: that is how... the birth of thought, like that of life, presents... and defines itself.
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)