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Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.

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Simone Weil

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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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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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

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Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

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