A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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