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Teilhard imagined himself standing at the Evolutionary Front, at “the final boundary between what has already been achieved [by Evolution] and what is striving to emerge,” at the “edge of chaos,” the critical point that is available to the Human community at each and every moment of its evolutionary history. Riding on “the ‘front of the wave’ [that is] carrying the world… towards its new destiny,” he had “an over-all view of the whole forward [movement] of the human mass,… an underlying stream of clarity, energy, and freedom… found hardly anywhere else in ordinary life” (MM, 203–5). This gave him hope.
-Teilhard's Struggle, Embracing the Work of Evolution, Kathleen Duffy, SSJ
Learn to love and to accept serenely (as the influence of a great loving power) those uncontrollable events which thwart your action—and you will see that you will come closer to peace…. my whole “religion” can be reduced to this active surrender to a World which I understand less and less in detail… but whose “divinization” or “personalization” seems clearer to me every day. That my existence has been as much as possible an act of fidelity to Life is the only thing that interests and reassures me from now on. (LTF, 83)
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, as quoted in: Teilhard's Struggle, Embracing the Work of Evolution, Kathleen Duffy, SSJ
"My God, take me by the hand, I'll follow you like a good girl, I won't make too much resistance. I will not dodge any of the things that come upon me in this life, I will try to accept everything in the best possible way. I like warmth and security, but I will not rebel if I have to stay cold as long as you hold my hand I will go everywhere, and I will try not to be afraid. And wherever I am, I will try to radiate some of that love, that true love for people that I carry inside me. Once you begin to walk with God you simply continue to walk and life becomes a single, long stride".
-Etty Hillesum
“It was as though he said, ‘Now human reason, genuflect in front of the Word of God because not to do so is no longer reasonable.’”
-Colombo, “Un maestro che seppe ascoltare,” x–xi.
What matters is not the extent of the acquired knowledge, but that one recognizes values: the truth, the good, the beautiful. Learning must be directed to this goal. Learning should be an act that is valuable in and of itself. It should be an interaction with the object, interested in experiencing its form, its content, and its meaning. In the face of the assertion: “Knowledge is power,” Judaism must proclaim, “Knowledge is love.”
--In This Hour Heschel’s Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Foreword by Susannah Heschel
“Those microbes have finally settled themselves in my left leg and my ear, and an eyebrow begins to fall. I expect to have my face soon disfigured. Having no doubt myself of the true character of my disease, I feel calm, resigned, and happier among my people. Almighty God knows what is best for my own sanctification, and with that conviction I say daily a good fiat voluntas tua—your will be done.”
-Fr. Damien,
“This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way of life in which we keep our freedom and our distance. But that means that we stop growing and shut ourselves up in our own small concerns and pleasures.”
- jean vanier
His cousin Marguerite, who knew his spiritual path well, confirms this. He was, she says, “always spreading his sails to the wind of adventure, ready for the greatest of all voyages, the only one that fired his enthusiasm, the search for and meeting with God.” 13 Yearning to see God ever more clearly and to love God ever more ardently, he prays, “Let your universal Presence spring forth in a blaze that is at once Diaphany and Fire. O ever-greater Christ!” (HM, 58).
-Teilhard's Struggle, Embracing the Work of Evolution, Kathleen Duffy, SSJ
So the sign warns and if you do, a mist emanates from the mushrooms at ground level! Very clever and quite cute. In the Enchanted Woods at Winterthur.
These flowers are so tiny that they are hard to see unless you are right next to the bush. The Barberry has very long thorns you can see in the picture. The deer manage to eat all the leaves in winter despite the thorns!
“Has my heart gone to sleep? / Have the beehives of my dreams / stopped working, the waterwheel / of the mind run dry, / scoops turning empty, / only shadow inside? / No, my heart is not asleep. / It is awake, wide awake / Not asleep, not dreaming—/ its eyes are opened wide / watching distant signals, listening / on the rim of the vast silence.”
-Antonio Machado, “Has My Heart Gone to Sleep?,” Solitudes, no. 16, in Selected Poems, trans. Alan S. Trueblood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), 93.
I don't remember where I got this one but its spreading nicely in the shade garden. It's quite tall- about 2' and has lots of blooms!