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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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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
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
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
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
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 glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality

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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