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.
SIMONE WEILWhat 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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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