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Christianity, knowledge, life, and Quotes by Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
"To think we must eat- but what a variety of thoughts we get out of one slice of bread." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (from The Phenomenon of Man)
"...the discovery of electro-magnetic waves, each individual finds himself henceforth (actively and passively) simultaneously present, over land and sea, in every corner of the earth."
For unity "...the personality is...a prison from which we must try to escape."
"The true ego grows in inverse proportion to 'egoism'."
"Christianity
is...one of the most rigorous and fruitful currents the noosphere has
ever known. Christian love is "...a new state of consciousness."
"...the sphericity of man's environment was bound to cause the intensification of psychosocial activity."
Man's "over-pronounced individuality conceals from our eyes the whole to which he belongs."
"...man is not static but is 'the leading shoot' of evolution."
Selfless love is in fact the final stage of both altruistic sociobiology and religion.
For those practiced in symbolic introspection, dreams are the purest form of knowledge.
Object and subject marry and mutually transform each other in the act of knowledge.
This is life: when a psychotic attacks you every morning, and you see Valhalla every night, they become commonplace.
These fragments are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, from the notebooks 1990-2005. To find out about books by Jack Haas, click on the image:
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