We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEILContradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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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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