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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence

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