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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Simone Weil

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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