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Heart of Matter: Nature is Not Merely the Stuff
“The weirdness of nature is that nature is not merely the stuff of material things but also the elusiveness of energy.”
Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole
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“Lo desconcertante de la naturaleza es que la naturaleza no es meramente la materia de las cosas materiales sino tambiĂ©n el carĂĄcter elusivo de la energĂa.”
Ilia Delio, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole
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