Joy is being fully aware of reality.
SIMONE WEILCompassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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