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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.

Simone Weil

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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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
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
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

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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