Louis M. Savary > Quotes

“According to Father Ron Rolheiser, “American culture is the most powerful narcotic this planet has ever perpetrated.”5 By keeping us focused on food, pleasure, entertainment, and comfort, it keeps us from developing spiritual depth, personal integrity, character, concern for the poor, or community life.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“The discoveries of modern science must form an important foundation to any contemporary spirituality if it is to be true, relevant, and inspiring.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The Christ Project might be summarized in two statements: (1) We humans are not separate from this planet nor from anyone or anything else on it or in it; and (2) we need to uplift everyone and everything on it or in it. The verb uplift is to be taken in its broadest context. We need to uplift everyone, individually and collectively—from poverty, from hunger, from ignorance, from servitude of one form or another, from lack of purpose and meaning, and so on.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“All material creation is capable of being spiritualized for two reasons: first, because the Creator loved it and, second, because Christ entered it fully.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“rather than seeing his passion and death as an act simply to atone for humanity’s sin, Teilhard suggests that Jesus’ suffering also has a constructive evolutionary meaning and purpose.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard de Chardin - Seven Stages of Suffering: A Spiritual Path for Transformation

“Rather than worry about avoiding sin, Teilhard's spirituality asks you to focus your attention each day on what you can do for the Body of Christ.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“For Teilhard, our faith imposes on us both the right and the duty to commit ourselves to the pursuits of the earth that move things further and deeper into complexity and consciousness.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“It is precisely because Christ is a center of light and love that he fills all of creation.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“We are all one species. Whatever happens to a fellow human somehow affects me. I cannot live my life as if my spirituality is something just between God and me.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Spirit, working in matter through the Law of Attraction-Connection-Complexity-Consciousness, is the unifying force in creation, bringing all the elements of creation to ever-higher levels of unity or oneness.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The evolving noosphere, which is the collective mind and heart of the planet, calls for a collective spirituality, one in which people, individually and collectively, create and contribute to its evolution. The purpose of such a relational spirituality is to bring the noosphere to its highest level of convergence, eventually operating as a single consciousness. This convergent oneness of humanity and the planet will be a knowledge-based and love-inspired union and communion. Only in this collective way may we create an adequate infrastructure for the full emergence of Christ as a Cosmic Christ (1 Cor 6:15, 17, 19). In this perspective, when Jesus says, “The Kingdom of God is among you,” it would mean, in Teilhard’s language, that the divine project is already under way.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“it is difficult to find an instance of Jesus asking people to enumerate their sins or do reparation for them. Instead, he quickly forgave the sins of those who trusted in him. Why? Because he was more interested in having the person return to the community, spiritually unencumbered and free to be loving and productive there. For Jesus, each person had important work to do for God and needed to be free within to do it.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“I am attempting to glean from Teilhard's personal experience reported in his books a consistent way of being a Christian today that satisfies the intellect as well as the spirit. Teilhard is the first in our time to attempt such a synthesis for himself.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“Faith presupposes reason and enriches it. This is a basic principle of a healthy spirituality.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Just as we sometimes waste time doing nothing, we can also waste energy—and suffering energy is probably the easiest energy to waste. We waste suffering energy when we see it simply as something that has no use or value, or must simply be endured, or as a punishment. When we treat suffering energy as useless and undesirable, it gets wasted. But it doesn’t have to be so.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard de Chardin - Seven Stages of Suffering: A Spiritual Path for Transformation

“The Divine Milieu is, at its core, an evolving love story told by a recipient of that love. Teilhard's spirituality teaches us how to recognize this loving divine design in evolution and to nurture it.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“by analogy, we could say that the blind people on earth are not excluded from the beauty of earth but only from being able to see it as it truly is. So the damned are not excluded from heaven; they just can't see it for what it truly is.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“Only when you see yourself realistically, can you hope to grow and evolve.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“In Teilhard’s spirituality, two of his central evolutionary principles were first to love the “invisible” and second to love the “not yet.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard de Chardin - Seven Stages of Suffering: A Spiritual Path for Transformation

“I sometimes think that animals, especially pets, were put into our lives to teach us how to freely give and receive love and affection, and to teach us how unconditionally God loves us.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“the startling fact of God’s plan for the human race is that even if you are sick or in some other way wounded or diminished by circumstances in your life, you can still effectively contribute to saving the world. You can do it through your suffering.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard de Chardin - Seven Stages of Suffering: A Spiritual Path for Transformation

“Teilhard realized, as Paul Hawken put it in his book Blessed Unrest, “Evolution is optimism in action.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The Franciscan Richard Rohr once observed that most people assume that Jesus, because of his prophetic message, was killed by evil men. However, said Rohr, those responsible for Jesus' death were not evil. They were the people of the establishment, protecting what they had established. They would have considered themselves good people, doing what was best for society.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“for Teilhard, as for St. Paul, there are three natures in Christ. Christ is fully human, fully divine, and fully cosmic.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“you are not the center of your life purpose. The Christ Project is.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“That same God-consciousness embodied in the human Jesus is present in all of us, individually and collectively, though many of us may have not “awakened” to it yet. It is present and waits to be awakened. “The day of my spiritual awakening,” wrote Mechtild of Magdeburg (1210–1280), “was the day I saw—and knew I saw—all things in God and God in all things.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“God first made creation sacred about fourteen billion years ago at the Big Bang in the first moment of the universe’s life. About two thousand years ago, God made creation doubly sacred by a second Big Bang, which was the appearance of Jesus Christ.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Living is a matter of whose purpose I commit to.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century

“The divine milieu has been working at this task for billions of years, trying to get all of the beings that live in it, first, to realize they are meant to be one being, and then to get them to act consciously and lovingly as that one being.”
― Louis M. Savary, Teilhard De Chardin-The Divine Milieu Explained: A Spirituality for the 21st Century