There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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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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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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