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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
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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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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

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