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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Words of Wisdom

This great man was called Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist, Jesuit priest, born in France in 1891 and died in 1955. Here is one of his brilliant writings:

> Religion is not just one, there are hundreds.
>Spirituality is one.
>Religion is for those who sleep.
>Spirituality is for those who are awake.
>Religion is for those who need someone to tell them what to do and want guidance.
> Spirituality is for those who pay attention to their inner voice.
>Religion has a set of dogmatic rules.
>Spirituality invites us to reason about everything, to question everything.
>Religion threatens and scares.
>Spirituality gives inner peace.
>Religion talks about sin and guilt.
>Spirituality says: “Learn from error”.
>Religion represses everything and in some cases it is false.
>Spirituality transcends everything, it brings you closer to your truth!
>Religion speaks of a god; it is not God.
>Spirituality is everything and therefore it is in God.
>Religion invents.
>Spirituality finds.
>Religion does not tolerate any questions.
>Spirituality calls everything into question.
>Religion is human, it is an organization with human rules.
>Spirituality is Divine, without human rules.
>Religion is a cause of divisions.
>Spirituality unites.
>Religion is looking for you to believe.
>Spirituality must be sought in order to believe.
>Religion follows the precepts of a sacred book.
>Spirituality seeks the sacred in all books.
>Religion feeds on fear.
>Spirituality is nourished by trust and faith.
>Religion lives in the lower astral.
>Spirituality lives in consciousness.
>Religion takes care.
>Spirituality is linked to Being.
>Religion feeds the ego.
>Spirituality pushes us to transcend.
>Religion makes us abandon the world to follow a god.
>Spirituality makes us live in God, without abandoning ourselves.
>Religion is a cult.
>Spirituality is meditation.
>Religion fills us with dreams of glory in heaven.
> Spirituality makes us experience glory and paradise here and now.
> Religion lives in the past and in the future.
> Spirituality lives in the present.
> Religion creates cloisters in our memory.
> Spirituality frees our consciousness.
> Religion makes us believe in eternal life.
> Spirituality makes us aware of eternal life.
> Religion promises life after death.
> Spirituality promises to find God within us during life and death.