“Those with a passionate sense of the divine milieu cannot bear to find things about them obscure, tepid, and empty, things which should be full and vibrant with God. They are paralyzed by the thought of the innumerable spirits which are linked to theirs in the unity of the same world, but are not yet fully kindled by the flame of the divine presence.”

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. The Divine Milieu. Translated by Siôn Cowell. (Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2012), page 107.