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All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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