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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Simone Weil

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
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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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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

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