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.
SIMONE WEILEquality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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