Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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