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

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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
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
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
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
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality

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

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