Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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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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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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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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