Purity

Teilhard de Chardin

Purity does not lie in separation from but in deeper penetration into the universe.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I stumbled across this quote from Teilhard while reading an essay by Annie Dillard called “Flying in the Middle of Art.” She doesn’t provide the original source, and I googled it and couldn’t find it that way either. So I’m not sure exactly where or when Teilhard said this. And I suppose it doesn’t matter. It’s one of those lovely “words” of wisdom, similar to what...