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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

Simone Weil

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking

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