'Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.' 265-66

'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'.' 263

'Also false and against nature is the racial ideal of one branch draining off for itself alone all the sap of the tree and rising over the death of the other branches.' 244

'Man is not the centre of the universe as once we thought in our simplicity, but something much more wonderful-the arrow pointing the way to the final unification of the world in terms of life.' 224

'it centres itself further on itself by penetration into a new space, and at the same time it centres the rest of the world around itself by the establishment of an ever more coherent and better organized perspective in the realities which surround it.' 172

'the evidence that science, in its present-day reconstructions of the world, neglects an essential factor, or rather, an entire dimension of the universe.' 163

Teilhard de Chardin, Phenomenon of Man, 1955

Sad to me that the hopeful constructions and intentions of those in the past have fallen to the side, just a glimmer of hope...Chardin makes a good presentation of an evolution of the Spirit which mirrors creation. But is man something different from the other aspects of creation? The Omega Point, are we rising to something higher? It would be helpful to better understand the layering of expression to this higher.