It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
SIMONE WEILIn struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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 virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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