A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
SIMONE WEILGod is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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 to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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