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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.

Simone Weil

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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 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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
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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Goodness Heart Human Object World
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

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