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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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