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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Simone Weil

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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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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 only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin

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