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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.

Simone Weil

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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality

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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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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