Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
SIMONE WEILStars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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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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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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