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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher, wrote profoundly about the “within of things”, a concept central to his vision of a universe evolving toward consciousness and unity in his book "The Phenomenon of Man" (1955). His "within" refers to the interior, spiritual, or conscious dimension of matter and life—a hidden depth present in all things. He maintained that complexification, by convergent integration leads to the evolution of progressively more conscious mind in mankind.

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Fulcrum of a rose

I held 
a red rose
to face, to feel its grace.
To see, and touch and trace,
the wellspring of its beauty.
It's not in lush of blush of petals,
Nor in the sleuth to avoid its thorns,
Nor in its color reflected when held under a chin.
But in its fragrance, its crux, emanating from its core,
that trips the pivot point of perception to delve within.
To the essence of the 'within of things', flushed from heart, spirit, soul.

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