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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.

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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality

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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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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