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Letters to Two Friends: 1926-1952
Pierre Teilhard deChardin

1 "The future belongs to those who, across all nationalist and bourgeois conventions, boldly give the example of a greater faith in the forces of good and intelligence hidden in Man and a greater love for everything that rises or tries to rise."

2 "The World cannot endure, advance, or realize itself without the action of a power that is a species of love."

3 "The difficulties and improbabilities that you are struggling against are the great, the fundamental, the eternal barriers that the spirit must cross in order to reach God. I personally believe the solution to lie in the eminent value of SPIRIT and in the ultimate connection of all the substances of the World."

4 "To know man, true man, man as a whole, one must know God."

5 "Have you read the beginning of the Epistle to the Colossians (Chapter 1, verses 12-23), and tried to give it the full, organic meaning it requires? Here Christ appears as a true soul of the World."

6 "Yes, I believe we are approaching the moment when new affinities – the true panhuman affinities – will break down nationalistic boundaries, in politics as in religion."

7 "Nothing is isolated, nothing is either small or profane, since the humblest consciousness partially includes the destinies of the Universe and cannot improve itself without improving everything around it."

8 "For you, as for everyone, there is only one road that can lead to God, and this is the fidelity to remain constantly true to yourself, to what you feel is highest in you. Do not worry about the rest. The road will open before you as you go."

9 "I find that the sea, the mountains, the Milky Way, reveal and enhance Humanity as an immense cosmic energy; and it seems to me that this grandeur, far from overpowering the individual, imparts to him an inexhaustible charm and mystery."

10 "Above all, look for and rekindle in yourself the fundamental spark of faith in the World:…And don't forget, of course, that faith is nourished and fortified by action."

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