Simone Weil @SimonesNotes

I cannot think of the parable of The Barren Figtree without trembling. Joined March 2012

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Simone Weil @SimonesNotes

4 years ago

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. Simone Weil -Gravity and Grace

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4 years ago

“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.” Simone Weil

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thoughtfully catholic @stevhep

4 years ago

@SimonesNotes The compassion felt for fragility is always associated with love for real beauty, because we are keenly conscious of the fact that the existence of the really beautiful things ought to be assured forever, and is not. Simone Weil

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Christopher @cjyurkanin

4 years ago

@SimonesNotes The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

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Raúl González Lima @ragolim

4 years ago

@SimonesNotes "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."

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Simone Weil @SimonesNotes

4 years ago

What’s your favourite Simone Weil quote? Mine… “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

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4 years ago

New cover photo for 2022😊

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4 years ago

Toujours d'actualité 2022

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4 years ago

Someone’s Happy New Year begins with you…

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Simone Weil @SimonesNotes

5 years ago

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating.’ Simone Weil

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thoughtfully catholic @stevhep

6 years ago

If I recall correctly this is from one of #SimoneWeil's more sustained metaphors. She goes on to point out that oil and coal are merely stored forms of sunlight. So, everything from which we draw energy and light comes from a heavenly source.

Simone Weil @SimonesNotes

6 years ago

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Simone Weil @SimonesNotes

6 years ago

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.

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Simone Weil @SimonesNotes

6 years ago

“…by an extreme effort of concentration I was able to rise above this wretched flesh, to leave it to suffer by itself, heaped up in a corner, and to find a pure and perfect joy in the unimaginable beauty of the chanting and the words...”

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Simone Weil @SimonesNotes

6 years ago

Love is not consolation. It is light.

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6 years ago

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?”

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6 years ago

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

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Simone Weil @SimonesNotes

6 years ago

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”

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Simone Weil @SimonesNotes

6 years ago

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.