Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEILA 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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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