To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
SIMONE WEILA 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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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