Quotes to Ponder

From The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin –

It may be said that this [to imagine our power of loving developing until it embraces the total of men and of the earth] is the precise point at which we are invoking the impossible.  Man’s capacity, it may seem, is confined to giving his affection to one human being or to very few.  Beyond that radius the heart does not carry, and there is only room for cold justice and cold reason.  To love all and everyone is a contradictory and false gesture which only leads in the end to loving no-one.
To that I would answer that if, as you claim, a universal love is impossible, how can we account for that irresistible instinct in our hearts which leads us towards unity whenever and in whatever direction our passions are stirred?  A sense of the universe, a  sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music — these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.  The ‘mystics’ and their commentators apart, how has psychology been able so consistently to ignore this fundamental vibration whose ring can be heard by every practiced ear at the basis, or rather at the summit, of every great emotion?  Resonance to the All –the keynote of pure poetry and pure religion.  Once again:  what does this phenomenon, which is born with thought and grows with it, reveal if not a deep accord between two realities which seek each other; the severed particle which trembles at the approach of ‘the rest’?

From Walt Whitman – 

Reexamine all that you have been told…dismiss that which insults your soul.

From Antonio Machado –

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

From Marcus Aurelius –

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

From Emmet Fox –

Nature always takes you at your own valuation.

From Ray Kurzweil –  

What happens during evolution?  Entities get more complicated.  They become more knowledgeable and more creative, more capable of higher levels of emotions, like love.  What do we mean by the word God?  God is an ideal meaning infinite levels of all of these qualities.  All-knowing, Infinitely beautiful, Infinitely loving.  And we notice that through evolution, entities move towards infinite levels, never really achieving them, staying finite but exploding exponentially to become more and more knowing, more and more creative, more and more beautiful, more and more loving, and so on–moving exponentially toward this ideal of God but never really achieving it.

From Eckhart Tolle ~

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

From Confucius ~ 

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

From Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~  February 14, 2013  ~  Happy Valentine’s Day

To love is to discover and complete one’s self in someone other than oneself, an act impossible of general realization on Earth so long as each can see in the neighbor no more than a closed fragment following its own course through the world.  It is precisely this state of isolation that will end if we begin to discover in each other not merely the elements of one and the same thing, but of a single Spirit in search of itself.  The existence of such a power becomes possible in the curvature of a world capable of noogenesis

From Annie Dillard ~Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

It could be that God has not absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of its hem.

From the Magdalene Oracles by Toni Carmine Salerno

Keep your pockets full of dreams
For life is a test of faith.
Allow your light to shine
There is no beginning or end
There is only love!

From Nikola Tesla

If you wish to understand the Universe, think of energy, frequency, and vibration.

From Ram Dass – Love Serve Remembers 

‎"Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness."-Albert Einstein

‎”Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness.”
-Albert Einstein

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