Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
SIMONE WEILI also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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