simone weil

Every separation is a link.

“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.””

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

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

“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.”

“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.”