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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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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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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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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