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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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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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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
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

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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