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“In the Iliad, you never find a Trojan on his knees before a Greek and imploring for his life.”
— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
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“In the Iliad, you never find a Trojan on his knees before a Greek and imploring for his life.”
— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
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Il tempo, in senso stretto, non esiste (se non il presente come limite), eppure è a questo che siamo soggetti. Questa è la nostra condizione. Siamo soggetti a ciò che non esiste. Che si tratti della durata subita passivamente — dolore fisico, attesa, rimpianto, rimorso, paura — o del tempo gestito — ordine, metodo, necessità —, in entrambi i casi ciò a cui siamo soggetti non esiste. Ma la nostra sottomissione esiste. Siamo realmente legati da catene irreali. Il tempo, irreale, avvolge tutte le cose e noi stessi in un velo di irrealtà.
Simone Weil
Le temps, à proprement parler, n’existe pas (sinon le présent comme limite), et pourtant c’est à cela que nous sommes soumis. Telle est notre condition. Nous sommes soumis à ce qui n’existe pas. Qu’il s’agisse de la durée passivement soufferte — douleur physique, attente, regret, remords, peur — ou du temps manié — ordre, méthode, nécessité, — dans les deux cas, ce à quoi nous sommes soumis, cela n’existe pas. Mais notre soumission existe. Nous sommes réellement attachés par des chaînes irréelles. Le temps, irréel, voile toutes choses et nous-mêmes d’irréalité.
Simone Weil
“The superior prestige of the nation is bound up with the exaltation of war. It furnishes no motives for action in peacetime, except in a régime which constitutes a permanent preparation for war, like the Nazi régime.”
— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
Attention is the ultimate form of generosity Simone Weil, on Attention & Grace
David Brooks: How the Way You Look at s/o Changes Who They Become | Sounds True In case you think I only ever present problems, or take some sort of sick delight in pointing out the decay in society; here is one very poignant way to go thru life, instead of being annoyed or ignoring those you find disagreeable. Listen to them like they have a genuine pov worth listening to & learning from, don't just learn one thing so you can fill in the rest of the narrative with your own assumptions. I actually tried it yesterday, and it worked, it helped me to pay attention to s/o I haven't been able to hear in a long time. It really transformed this person back to the original version I first encountered, from being over-the-top bubble-gum persona he reverted back to s/o who was dignified. It's crazy.. what the brain does to distort how a person comes across, especially when it is a recording—there is no where to hide.
When CBS News anchor Dan Rather asked Mother Teresa what she said to GOD during prayer, she perfectly captured idea of ultimate attention by replying, "I don't say anything. I listen." When Rather followed up by asking what GOD says to her when she listens, she smiled & answered, "HE doesn't say anything. HE listens." As Rather sat momentarily speechless and flustered, Mother Teresa gently added, "And if you don't understand that, I can't explain it to you." This interaction beautifully loops back to the idea that attention is the ultimate generosity. Mother Teresa viewed prayer not as a list of demands or spoken words, but as a mutual space of absolute, silent presence. [1, 2, 3]
David Brooks explains why the way you look at someone changes who they become, and how to be the kind of person who makes others feel truly seen. Only about 30% of people, he estimates, are genuine question askers. The rest are what he calls diminishers: uncurious, quick to stereotype, prone to learning one fact about you and inventing the rest. Illuminators do the opposite. They are curious, they listen, and they make you feel lit up. Brooks admits he often fails at this himself, catching himself at parties in what he calls broadcast mode. Drawing on Simone Weil, who said attention is the ultimate form of generosity, and Iris Murdoch, who urged us to cast a just and loving attention on others instead of looking with self-serving eyes, Brooks shows what that gaze can actually do. In a Waco diner, a pastor grabbed a formidable 93-year-old woman by the shoulders and told her she was the best and that he loved her. In an instant, she became a bright-eyed nine-year-old girl. Even at Bell Labs, the most productive researchers were not the ones with higher IQs. They were the ones who ate lunch with a single engineer who asked them about their work. He closes with the story of a writer who believed he was incapable of love, until four days in Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami showed him what real love looks like, and changed the course of his life.
“Everything is done to make children feel—not that they don't feel it naturally—that things concerning the country, the nation, the nation's growth have a degree of importance which sets them apart from other things. And it is precisely in regard to those things that justice, consideration for others, strict obligations assigning limits to ambitions and appetites—all that moral teaching one is trying to instill into the lives of little boys—never get mentioned.
What conclusion is there to be drawn other than that morals are among the number of less important things, which, like religion, a trade, the choice of a doctor or a grocer, belong to the lower plane of private life?”
— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
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“But in situations of fear, anguish, when the flesh draws back before the prospect of death, or too great a degree of suffering or danger, in the mind of every man, even if he is completely uneducated, a manufacturer of arguments suddenly stands forth, who elaborates proofs to demonstrate why it is legitimate and right to avoid that particular death, suffering or danger. Such proofs can be either good or bad, depending on the particular case. At all events, at the time, the body's disturbed condition gives them an intensity of persuasive force that no orator has ever succeeded in acquiring.
There are people to whom things do not happen in this way. That is either because their natures protect them from fear, that their flesh, blood and bowels remain unaffected by the presence of death or suffering; or else because their minds have attained such a degree of unity that this manufacturer of arguments has no opportunity of getting to work in them. With others, again, he is able to get to work, and makes his arguments felt, but they are scorned nevertheless. That in itself presupposes either an already high degree of inward unity, or else powerful outward incentives.”
— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
“It is true that men are capable of dividing their minds into compartments, in each of which an idea lives a sort of life of its own, undisturbed by other ideas. They don't care for either critical or synthetical effort, and won't submit to making either, unless obliged.”
— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
Waiting for God, Simone Weil