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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
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
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

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