Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
SIMONE WEILLove: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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 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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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