4 Posts found for Author: Simone Weil

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Author: Simone Weil | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Relationships

Meeting and separation are two forms of friendship that contain the same good. Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated.

Author: Simone Weil | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior, Relationships

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.

Author: Simone Weil | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subject: Religion

The reality of life is not sensation but activity — I mean activity both in thought and in action. People who live by sensations are parasites, both materially and morally, in relation to those who work and create… who do not seek sensations [but] experience in fact much livelier, profounder, less artificial and truer ones than those who seek them.

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The cultivation of sensations… leads … [ Read more ]

Author: Simone Weil | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement