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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

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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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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality

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