simone weil

[onetwofeb]

Every separation is a link.

Simone Weil

[blackswaneuroparedux]

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. Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

- Simone Weil

[mystmetdefuct]

— Weil, Gravity & Grace 

[trans. Emma Crawford & Mario von der Ruhr]

[mystmetdefuct]

— Weil, Gravity & Grace

[trans. Emma Crawford & Mario von der Ruhr]

[mystmetdefuct]

— Weil, Gravity & Grace

[trans. Emma Crawford & Mario von der Ruhr]

[theotreptos]

Simone Weil, “The Love of God and Affliction,” Waiting for God

[feverfuckery]

“What Simone Weil said: Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the object, no corner is left for saying “I.””

— Ocean Vuong / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[arterialtrees]

“We are a part which has to imitate the whole.”

— Simone Weil

[arterialtrees]

If my eyes are blindfolded and if my hands are chained to a stick, this stick separates me from things but I can explore them by means of it. It is only the stick which I feel, it is only the wall which I perceive. It is the same with creatures and the faculty of love. Supernatural love touches only creatures and goes only to God. It is only creatures which it loves (what else have we to love?), but it loves them as intermediaries.

[s-weil]

“No human being should be deprived of his metaxu, that is to say of those relative and mixed blessings (home, country, traditions, culture, etc.) which warm and nourish the soul and without which, short of sainthood, a human life is not possible.”

[s-weil]

“The essence of created things is to be intermediaries. They are intermediaries leading from one to the other and there is no end to this. They are intermediaries leading to God. We have to experience them as such.”

[doxologee]

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

- Simone Weil

[omcgowan]

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (via quotes-shape-us)

[omcgowan]

“At the centre of the human heart, is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.”

— Simone Weil, “Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation” (via syntheticphilosophy)

[s-weil]

[neoyorzapoteca]

Simone Weil

[istmos]

John Berger and Simone Weil