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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Simone Weil

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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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
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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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

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