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

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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
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
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
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
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World

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

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