everything that rises must converge

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The Universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. 

Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen. 

The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.  

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

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To be fully ourselves it is in the opposite direction, in the direction of convergence with all the rest, that we must advance—towards the ‘other.’ The peak of ourselves, the acme of our originality, is not our individuality but our person; and according to the evolutionary structure of the world, we can only find our person by uniting together. 

There is no mind without synthesis. 

The same holds good from top to bottom. The true ego grows in inverse proportion to ‘egoism.’ Like the Omega which attracts it, the element only becomes personal when it universalises itself.


—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Phenomenon of Man

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My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis. Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love!

At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.


—Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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