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Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
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
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

Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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