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Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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 grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue

Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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