Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
SIMONE WEILThere is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Equality 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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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