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

Simone Weil

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
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

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