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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

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