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

Simone Weil

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
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
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
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
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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

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

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

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