Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
SIMONE WEILAll sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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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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