You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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More quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- 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.
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
- The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
- 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.