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

Simone Weil

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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’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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom

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