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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

Simone Weil

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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
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
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
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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
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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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity

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