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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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