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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
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 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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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
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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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening

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