Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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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 world is God’s language to us.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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