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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

Simone Weil

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
SIMONE WEIL

Empty Grace

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

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