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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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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Each Other Friendship Seperate
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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

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