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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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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