The New Spiritual Exercises Quotes

“According to Father Ron Rolheiser, “American culture is the most powerful narcotic this planet has ever perpetrated.”5 By keeping us focused on food, pleasure, entertainment, and comfort, it keeps us from developing spiritual depth, personal integrity, character, concern for the poor, or community life.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Only when you see yourself realistically, can you hope to grow and evolve.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“A primary reason for the incarnation is that God wanted to reveal to us that everything God created in the universe—literally every thing and every process—is sacred and holy and lives in Christ. “In the beginning was the Word.…All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being” (John 1:1, 3).”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“God first made creation sacred about fourteen billion years ago at the Big Bang in the first moment of the universe’s life. About two thousand years ago, God made creation doubly sacred by a second Big Bang, which was the appearance of Jesus Christ.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Teilhard realized, as Paul Hawken put it in his book Blessed Unrest, “Evolution is optimism in action.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Relationships always bring complexity. You learn who you truly are by making your life more complex.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“it is difficult to find an instance of Jesus asking people to enumerate their sins or do reparation for them. Instead, he quickly forgave the sins of those who trusted in him. Why? Because he was more interested in having the person return to the community, spiritually unencumbered and free to be loving and productive there. For Jesus, each person had important work to do for God and needed to be free within to do it.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“you are not the center of your life purpose. The Christ Project is.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“We are all one species. Whatever happens to a fellow human somehow affects me. I cannot live my life as if my spirituality is something just between God and me.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“a major task of any true contemporary spirituality should be to help prepare the collective mind and heart of the planet for the Cosmic Christ. This is the Christ Project.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The evolving noosphere, which is the collective mind and heart of the planet, calls for a collective spirituality, one in which people, individually and collectively, create and contribute to its evolution. The purpose of such a relational spirituality is to bring the noosphere to its highest level of convergence, eventually operating as a single consciousness. This convergent oneness of humanity and the planet will be a knowledge-based and love-inspired union and communion. Only in this collective way may we create an adequate infrastructure for the full emergence of Christ as a Cosmic Christ (1 Cor 6:15, 17, 19). In this perspective, when Jesus says, “The Kingdom of God is among you,” it would mean, in Teilhard’s language, that the divine project is already under way.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Spirit, working in matter through the Law of Attraction-Connection-Complexity-Consciousness, is the unifying force in creation, bringing all the elements of creation to ever-higher levels of unity or oneness.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“That same God-consciousness embodied in the human Jesus is present in all of us, individually and collectively, though many of us may have not “awakened” to it yet. It is present and waits to be awakened. “The day of my spiritual awakening,” wrote Mechtild of Magdeburg (1210–1280), “was the day I saw—and knew I saw—all things in God and God in all things.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Faith presupposes reason and enriches it. This is a basic principle of a healthy spirituality.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The discoveries of modern science must form an important foundation to any contemporary spirituality if it is to be true, relevant, and inspiring.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“I sometimes think that animals, especially pets, were put into our lives to teach us how to freely give and receive love and affection, and to teach us how unconditionally God loves us.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The Christ Project might be summarized in two statements: (1) We humans are not separate from this planet nor from anyone or anything else on it or in it; and (2) we need to uplift everyone and everything on it or in it. The verb uplift is to be taken in its broadest context. We need to uplift everyone, individually and collectively—from poverty, from hunger, from ignorance, from servitude of one form or another, from lack of purpose and meaning, and so on.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin