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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Simone Weil

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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
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
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality

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