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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea

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