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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
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

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