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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
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
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

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