“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”
“Humility is attentive patience."
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
I can, therefore I am.”
“Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. ”
“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.”
“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”
“It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms. ”
“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.”
― Simone Weil
“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.”
“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”
“Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.”
“A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. ”
“Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.”
“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached”
“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”
“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. ”
“To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.”
“Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.”
“How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?”
― Simone Weil
There is a famous quote from A Course in Miracles that is "I am not a victicm of the world I know". In relationships, one can swing back in forth between being a "victim" & a "victimizer" in the name of control. Sometimes the victimizer, using passive-aggressive techniques uses playing the "victim" to attempt to control. Mostly, though the "victimizer" is just plain aggressive in order to attempt to control. Why "control"? Feeling insecure, one can overcome those feelings in order to feel secure.
What is the win-win situation here? Compassionate understanding of each others motive to feel secure, and help them feel wanted, when they are being aggressive or passive-aggressive. When one can observe the others attempt to control with compassion, knowing they are just wanting to feel secure, and help them feel wanted, respect is gained and the relationship is in a win-win situation.
In truly successively experiencing the positive results of this and being pro-active about the compassionate response, rather than an ignorant reaction, "knowledge" becomes wisdom.
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