"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- art by cameron gray
Reminds me of Jimi Hendrix quote. It goes something like: When the power of love overcomes the love of power, we shall know peace.
"At the present juncture of human history an increase in our knowledge of the grace of love has become the paramount need of humanity, and an intensive research in this field should take precedence over almost all other studies and research. ... Considering the immensity of this task, [my] contribution is very modest in comparison with the total sum of the necessary studies. Since, however, the better brains are busy with other problems, including the invention of means of extermination of human beings ... [and] many a religious leader is absorbed in the intertribal crusades against various enemies—under these conditions somebody, somehow, must devote himself to a study of the miracle of love."
- Pitirim A. Sorokin, The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation
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Bishop Michael Curry said something similar at the royal wedding.
Yes, he paraphrased the quote above from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in that speech đź’ś
