Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
SIMONE WEILIt is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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