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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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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
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

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