Gravity and Grace

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She described how in this whole process workers become trapped like squirrels in a cage, ensnared into a kind of slavery. Partly because my words alone cannot do her work justice, but also because Weil so lacks of her self that without their comments, we might not see her at all. In Southern France, during wine harvest times, she carried with her a copy of Plato’s Symposium, eagerly sharing, and explaining it to others.

as tik nustebes ziuriu i ja ir sakau: kaip, kokiai magijai padedant si moteris istenge taip sutvarkyti savo vidu, kad gali iveikti tai, kas mane triuskina? He does state that Weil wasn’t a catholic, though when I mentioned to a friend that I was reading this work, my friend was adamant that she was; just one who refused to take the sacraments. At the station she gave me a portfolio crammed with papers, asking me to read them and to take care of them during her exile. That is why evil can extend to the extreme limit beyond which the very possibility of good disappears. If one wants to believe that Weil says something profound, then you can fool yourself into thinking that she does, when in fact there are times when there is simply no substance to her writing.This insistence upon inner purity and authenticity made her pitiless for all the authors in whom she thought she could detect the slightest affectation, the slightest hint of insincerity or self-importance—Corneille, Hugo or Nietzsche for instance. Simone Weil is mentioned several times in the correspondence of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (compiled in the book "Striving Towards Being").

War (Krieg)," woodcut by Käthe Kollwitz, a German artist who lived from 1867–1945 and worked in multiple mediums to express suffering.Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. No one who loves life would wish to imitate her dedication to martyrdom nor would wish it for his children nor for anyone else whom he loves. As I read Weil's essays in Waiting For God, I am getting more accessible and well-expounded ideas, but I still wonder—is this who we should all be reading? G. Thibon raso apie Weil: “Prisimenu viena jauna darbininke, kurioje ji atrado – taip jai atrode – polinki i intelektualuma ir kuria be perstojo vaisino nuostabiais pasakojimais apie upanisadas. If saintness existed for Weil, it came from her consistent refusal to live outside God's grace and, consequently, as a human being.

It would be nice to see someone do for this book what Kreeft did for Pascal’s in Christianity for Modern Pagans—explain and expound. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps.contradição - "A Gravidade e a Graça" é um livro que, ao lembrar ao leitor da gravidade do acto da leitura lenta e dolorosa, começa a desenhar, frase a frase, página a página, a superação desse peso, e nela talvez uma hipótese de elevação, a Graça. It is certainly more compatible with God's greatness, for if he had made the best of all possible worlds, it would mean that he could not do very much. Apart from the Gospel which was her daily spiritual food, she had a deep veneration for the great Hindu and Taoistic writings, for Homer, the Greek tragedies and above all for Plato, whom she interpreted in a fundamentally Christian manner.