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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

Simone Weil

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

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