#Simone Weil

[theoceanislikeyou]

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[funeral]

Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

[dandeliiontea]

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

[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]

[godsopenwound]

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

[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

[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

[elishanelsonfanacct]

i love you / i fear you / i need you

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[funeral]

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[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

[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

[nousrose]

Attention consists of suspending our thought, leaving it detached, empty, and ready to be penetrated by the object; it means holding in our minds, within reach of this thought, but on a lower level and not in contact with it, the diverse knowledge we have acquired which we are forced to make use of. Our thought should be in relation to all particular and already formulated thoughts, as a man on a mountain who, as he looks forward, sees also below him, without actually looking at them, a great many forests and plains. Above all our thought should be empty, waiting, not seeking anything, but ready to receive in its naked truth the object that is to penetrate it. All wrong translations, all absurdities in geometry problems, all clumsiness of style, and all faulty connection of ideas in compositions and essays, all such things are due to the fact that thought has seized upon some idea too hastily, and being thus prematurely blocked, is not open to the truth. The cause is always that we have wanted to be too active; we have wanted to carry out a search.

Waiting for God

Simone Weil

[godsopenwound]

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

[discoursets]

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