Quotations, by Chris

After watching the documentary "An Encounter with Simone Weil" and being moved by some of the quotes shared there, I decided to google search for quotes and made this list that spoke to me.  I am sharing here. 

Simone Weil

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” 

“All sins are attempts to fill voids.” 

“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ” 

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

“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.” 

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

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

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

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

“Humility is attentive patience.”

“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.” 

“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. ”

“Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. ” 

“Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. ” 

“The desire to love the beauty of the world in a human being is essentially the desire for the Incarnation. If we think it is something else, we are mistaken. The Incarnation alone can satisfy it.”