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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation 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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War

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