Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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