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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession

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