We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEILEquality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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