It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
SIMONE WEILIt 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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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 intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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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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