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Gravity And Grace
by Simone Weil, Simone Weil
“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”
“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
“The beautiful is that which we cannot wish to change.”
“We should seek neither to escape suffering nor to suffer but to remain untainted by suffering.”
“We must not ask for the removal of such a difficulty: we must beg for grace to make good use of it.
In general we must not wish for the disappearance, of any of our troubles, but grace to transform them.”
“I should not love my suffering because it is useful. I should love it because it is.
To accept what is bitter. […] We have to accept these things, not in so far as they bring compensations with them, but in themselves. We have to accept the fact that they exist simply because they do exist.”
“Affiction. Time bears the thinking being in spite of himself towards that which he cannot bear and which will come all the same.”
“Life without form. Survival is then the only attachment. That is where extreme affliction begins—when all other attachments are replaced by that of survival. Attachment appears then in its nakedness without any other object but itself—Hell. […] Quasi-hell on earth. Complete uprooting in affliction.
Human injustice as a general rule produces not martyrs but quasi-damned souls. Beings who have fallen into this quasi-hell are like someone stripped and wounded by robbers. They have lost the clothing of character.”
“Headaches. At a certain moment, the pain is lessened by projecting it into the universe, but the universe is impaired; the pain is more intense when it comes home again, but something in me does not suffer and remains in contact with a universe which is not impaired. Act in the same way with the passions. Make them come down like a deposit, collect them into a point and become detached from them.
Especially, treat all sufferings in this way. Prevent them from having access to things.”
“Suffering is violence, joy is gentleness, but joy is the stronger.”
“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
“The beautiful is that which we cannot wish to change.”
“We should seek neither to escape suffering nor to suffer but to remain untainted by suffering.”
“We must not ask for the removal of such a difficulty: we must beg for grace to make good use of it.
In general we must not wish for the disappearance, of any of our troubles, but grace to transform them.”
“I should not love my suffering because it is useful. I should love it because it is.
To accept what is bitter. […] We have to accept these things, not in so far as they bring compensations with them, but in themselves. We have to accept the fact that they exist simply because they do exist.”
“Affiction. Time bears the thinking being in spite of himself towards that which he cannot bear and which will come all the same.”
“Life without form. Survival is then the only attachment. That is where extreme affliction begins—when all other attachments are replaced by that of survival. Attachment appears then in its nakedness without any other object but itself—Hell. […] Quasi-hell on earth. Complete uprooting in affliction.
Human injustice as a general rule produces not martyrs but quasi-damned souls. Beings who have fallen into this quasi-hell are like someone stripped and wounded by robbers. They have lost the clothing of character.”
“Headaches. At a certain moment, the pain is lessened by projecting it into the universe, but the universe is impaired; the pain is more intense when it comes home again, but something in me does not suffer and remains in contact with a universe which is not impaired. Act in the same way with the passions. Make them come down like a deposit, collect them into a point and become detached from them.
Especially, treat all sufferings in this way. Prevent them from having access to things.”
“Suffering is violence, joy is gentleness, but joy is the stronger.”