#Simone Weil

[undaughtered]

pushing my transmasc he/him simone weil agenda

[dandeliiontea]

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

[theoceanislikeyou]

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[funeral]

Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

[philosophybits]

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation can only take place between two or three. Even if there are only six or seven present, collective language begins to dominate.

Simone Weil, Waiting on God

[victusinveritas]

[arylleth]

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 into despair at the first onslaught of affection. simone weil, the love of god and affliction

[wishicouldcrossthesea]

A man drinks a glass of water. The water is God's "I love you". He is two days in the desert without finding anything to drink. The dryness in his throat is God's "I love you". God is like an importunate woman who clings to her lover, whispering in his ear for hours without stopping: "I love you- I love you- I love you- I love you..."

Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks, trans. Richard Rees

[godsopenwound]

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

[rose1water]

“I should look upon every sin I have committed as a favour of God. It is a favour that the essential imperfection which is hidden in my depths should have been to some extent made dear to me on a certain day, at a certain time, in certain circumstances. I wish and implore that my imperfection may be wholly revealed to me in so far as human thought is capable of grasping it. Not in order that it may be cured but, even if it should not be cured, in order that I may know the truth.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[amurg-cu-stele]

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Simone Weil

[holyfigtree]

...for Simone Weil, the dark night of God's absence, is itself the soul's contact with God. When she speaks of an 'ineffable consolation' that fills the soul after it has renounced everything, renounced even the desire for grace, she does not mean that supernatural love is something distinct from the acceptance of the void. To endure the void, to suffer evil, is our contact with God."

— Susan Taubes, The Absent God

[dandeliiontea]

We cannot take a single step toward God. We cannot walk (march) vertically. We only have the power to direct our gaze toward God. We do not have to search; we must only change the direction of our gaze. It is God who searches for us. We must be happy knowing that God is infinitely beyond our reach. We thus have the certainty that the evil in us, even if it submerges our whole being, does not defile the purity, the bliss and the divine perfection at all.

Simone Weil, About the Our Father

[virgin-martyr]

That is why mysticism is the only source of virtue for humanity. Because when men do not believe that there is infinite mercy behind the curtain of the world, or when they think that this mercy is in front of the curtain, they become cruel.

Simone Weil, excerpt from "He Whom We Must Love is Absent" Gravity and Grace

[funeral]

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[philosophybits]

Monotony is the most beautiful or the most atrocious thing. The most beautiful if it is a reflection of eternity — the most atrocious if it is the sign of an unvarying perpetuity. It is time surpassed or time sterilized. The circle is the symbol of monotony which is beautiful, the swinging of a pendulum of monotony which is atrocious.

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace