Only one thing is truly important and should fuel our desire, our passion for life: the feeling that God is realized all around us and within us. If this fundamental transformation continues to take place in our lives, what does it matter to the minor inconveniences or discord that will undoubtedly persist – and against which we must fight – but which can themselves serve to allow our Lord to take our place. This is how we want to be happy now, am I right?
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ /1881–1955/,
letter from the front, to his cousin, just before the end of World War I, November 7, 1918;
quoted from the book Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Birth of Thought. Letters 1914-1919, Malvern 2021)
