We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Quotesmemo.com

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I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Beings, Experience, Having, Life, Positive Thinking, Spiritual

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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

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Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

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We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.

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God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

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In order to overcome fear, your dream must become bigger than fear.

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I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

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. . . . If you are guided toward a faith, use it as a stepping stone to God, not as a barrier between yourself and God's other children or as a tower to hold you aloft from others. If you are not guided toward a faith (or even if you are) seek God in the silence - seek within.

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