One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of … - Simone Weil

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If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Simone Weil

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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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.

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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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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

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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 force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

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