Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
SIMONE WEILTo be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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