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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Simone Weil

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
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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

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