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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

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