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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Simone Weil

Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
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
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

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