We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, in The Phenomenon of Man [Le Phénom?ne Humain] (1955); Covey quotes this in Living the 7 Habits : Stories of Courage and Inspiration (2000), p. 47
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Variant: We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
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A paraphrase of De Chardin's statement which has also become misattributed to Covey.Stephen Covey
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