Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
SIMONE WEILPain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
SIMONE WEILFortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
SIMONE WEILTruth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
SIMONE WEILAbsolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
SIMONE WEILIt is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
SIMONE WEILPurity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEILWhenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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.
SIMONE WEILThere is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
SIMONE WEILEvery sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEILIt 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.
SIMONE WEILThe extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
SIMONE WEILAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
SIMONE WEILThe virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
SIMONE WEILExpectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
SIMONE WEILJoy is being fully aware of reality.
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