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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

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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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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
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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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

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