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All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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
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
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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