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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Simone Weil

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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 being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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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God Love Ourselves Reason
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
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual

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