Quotation by

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Experience

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This means that your true nature is spiritual, and living as a human is just one part of that larger existence. Instead of looking for spirituality outside yourself, recognize that your life as a person is the setting where your spiritual self is expressing and learning.

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