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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth 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
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 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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
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

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

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