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Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way

Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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