Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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 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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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