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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
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
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

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