Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
SIMONE WEILThe love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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