Have you ever realized what it feels like when a person cannot love enough those who, in a touching way, love them and whom they would want to love at all costs? I have experienced it – and I do not know a more sophisticated torment. It was as if the soul was being torn apart by the very forces that shape it and which now reveal themselves to be endowed with a mysterious complexity. The true remedy, as you yourself write, is to turn to our Lord...
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ /1881–1955/, letter from the front, to his cousin, February 5, 1917;
quoted from the book Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Birth of Thought. Letters 1914–1919, 2021)
