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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
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
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
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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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality

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