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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

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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
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

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