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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Simone Weil

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
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
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality

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