3 December 2020 Simone Weil Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
