Gravity and Grace

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Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time.

More than half a century before Oliver, another enchantress of the human spirit — the French philosopher Simone Weil (February 3, 1909–August 24, 1943), a mind of unparalleled intellectual elegance and a sort of modern saint whom Albert Camus described as “the only great spirit of our times” — wrote beautifully of attention as contemplative practice through which we reap the deepest rewards of our humanity. Rather, she encounters the universe as a kind of dialectic between gravity--everything that weighs us down, drawing us into a fundamentally corrupt and hypocritical social, material world--and grace, the energy that can transform suffering into.

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. Um combate com as imagens de Weil, onde sinto uma luta pelo despojamento, pela busca da pureza pura, pela anulação do peso do que faz afundar, cair no poço da autocomiseração, da bondade humilde como palco para uma suposta ascensão.

Thank God I do not suffer from any a priori antisemitism, but what I know from experience of the qualities and faults of the Jewish temperament does not fit in any too well with my own and is particularly ill-adapted to the demands of everyday life together. Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. In fact I will probably come back to this material repeatedly because there are many deep thoughts here that just need to be chewed over in that way. pode haver uma vontade de ler esses fragmentos como preceitos, mas são preceitos impossíveis, acredito.A esto debía de referirse Kafka con aquello de "Un libro debe ser el hacha que quiebre el mar helado dentro de nosotros. You cannot be a creature of this universe and not know the heaviness of gravity, and with millions of years of evolution working towards familiarising us with its effects, it is now embedded in our very consciousness. We all try in our own ways to fight that double movement of descent, we try to arrest in time that point of maximum altitude at which our motion is purely static. Weil argues that people’s actions should be driven by attention toward the impulsion of divine necessity, rather than by will/intention toward an ego-chosen object or goal. Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of people), and also because of this breaking of the true pact between the body and the soul.

Dialogue for me is not a form of polemics, of monologue or magisterial dogmatism, but of shared investigation" Thoughts from Jorge Luis Borges on the insatiable benefits of mutually-assured growth and personal development through dialogue. Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the object no corner is left for saying 'I'. If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale . For this reason the book reads like a series of thoughts--in some cases it seems Weil is trying to reason out a complex concept for herself in much the same way an artist might doodle or a scientist might scribble down formulas.After a brilliant academic career at school and university, she taught philosophy interspersed with periods of hard manual labor on farms and in factories.

His work has been exhibited at the London Art Fair, Royal College of Art and most recently at BITE at the Mall Galleries. Both maintain the role of a seeker, not a strict adherent to a creed, yet both overlap with orthodox Roman Catholic beliefs. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever. That void of self, a complete emptiness of need, something the Buddhists seek (but perhaps with less self-annihilation) drives most of Gravity and Grace. In addition, Linley’s of Mayfair have used Jason’s artworks for several of their exceptional interior design projects.