It 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.
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them. - Simone Weil
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
- Simone Weil
The need of truth is more sacred than any other need. - Simone Weil
The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.
If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that … - Simone Weil
If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that …
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 Weil
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.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. - Simone Weil
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
All sins are attempts to fill voids. - Simone Weil
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only f… - Simone Weil
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only f…
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. - Simone Weil
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny . - Simone Weil
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .
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