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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
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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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
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
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud

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