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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Simone Weil

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
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

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