black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
SIMONE WEIL

Faith Obstacle Religion True
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
SIMONE WEIL

Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
SIMONE WEIL

Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
It 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.
SIMONE WEIL

Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
SIMONE WEIL

Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
SIMONE WEIL

Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEIL

Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
SIMONE WEIL

Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEIL

Empty Fly Sin
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
SIMONE WEIL

Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
SIMONE WEIL

Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
SIMONE WEIL

Mistake Ourselves Understand
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
SIMONE WEIL

Himself Lose Men Money
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEIL

Ability One Liner Purity
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
SIMONE WEIL

Choice Light Oneself Plant
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
SIMONE WEIL

Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone Weil Quotes