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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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