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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Simone Weil

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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
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
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
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World

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