Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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