Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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