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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
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
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
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession

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