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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Simone Weil

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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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
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
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
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
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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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
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
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual

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