Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
SIMONE WEILLove: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
More Simone Weil Quotes
-
-
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 -
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
SIMONE WEIL -
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
SIMONE WEIL -
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
SIMONE WEIL -
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
SIMONE WEIL -
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
SIMONE WEIL -
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
SIMONE WEIL -
Love is not consolation, it is light.
SIMONE WEIL -
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.
SIMONE WEIL -
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
SIMONE WEIL -
The world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEIL -
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
SIMONE WEIL -
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
SIMONE WEIL -
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
SIMONE WEIL -
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
SIMONE WEIL