If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
SIMONE WEILSin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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