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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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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