A Valentine’s Day message from The Teilhard Project speaks to the deeper spirit of the day:

Love is the the most universal, formidable, and most mysterious
of the cosmic energies
—Building the Earth

The day will come when,
after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation,
we shall harness for God the energies of love.
And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire.
—Toward the Future

The special effect of love is to plunge the beings it draws together more deeply into themselves.
—Human Energy

Love is a sacred reserve of energy, and the blood stream of evolution;
that is the first discovery we can make from the sense of Earth.
—Building the Earth

Learn more about Teilhard de Chardin on this edition of On Being, in which Krista Tippet interviews three thought leaders for whom he has been a formative influence (includes links to transcript and audio).