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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
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
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
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves

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