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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Simone Weil

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
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
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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Himself Lose Men Money
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
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
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand

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