Teilhard de Chardin proposed a philosophy of love to support the principal features of evolution that include attraction, unity, complexity, and emergence—reflecting something deep and profound at the heart of nature. Love, he writes, is a passionate force at the heart of the Big Bang universe, the fire that breathes life into matter and unifies elements center to center; love is a cosmic unitive principle, a “cosmological force.” Teilhard states, “Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces . . . the physical structure of the universe is love.”
