Heart of Matter: A Discovery
Quote from (Writings in the Time of War) Teilhard recounts his inner journey into All:
“I allowed my consciousness to sweep back to the farthest limit of my body, to ascertain whether I might not expand outside myself. I stepped down into the most hidden depths of my being, lamp in hand and ears alert, to discover whether in the deepest recesses of the blackness within me, I might not see the glint of the waters of the current that flows on…”
Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole
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“He hecho refluir mi conciencia hasta la periferia extrema de mi cuerpo para comprobar si no podría prolongarme fuera de mí mismo. He descendido hasta las más ocultas profundidades de mi ser, lámpara en mano y oído atento, para intentar averiguar si en lo más recóndito de la tiniebla que hay en mí no vería yo brillar las aguas de la corriente que pasa, si no escucharía susurrar sus aguas misteriosas que vienen de las más remotas profundidades y van a brotar quién sabe dónde. Y he constatado, lleno de espanto y embriagadora emoción, que mi pobre e insignificante existencia estaba inscrita en la inmensidad de todo cuanto existe y de todo cuanto evoluciona”.
Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole
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