Gravity and Grace

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I will admit there are many places in this book where Weil completely loses me and I have no idea what she means. Thibon reiterates, "This insistence upon inner purity and authenticity made her pitiless for all the authors in whom she thought she could detect the slightest affectation, insincerity or self-importance.

Four years later the philosopher-farmer Gustave Thibon compiled La pesanteur et la grâce from the notebooks she left in his keeping. I arranged for her to be taken on in the team of grape-gatherers of a large landowner in a neighbouring village. talvez me falte fé, talvez eu seja hedonista demais, mas muitas vezes tudo o que eu pensava lendo sua filosofia era "calma!In short, you enter into the shock of becoming a “thing” and this “contradiction lodged within the soul tears it to shreds” (The Iliad, or the Poem of Force). The worst outrage for Weil is not necessarily physical deprivations but “the crime against the attention of the workers.

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If you like to spend hours disentangling texts only to realize you know nothing, this is the book for you. This is my first foray into Weil’s work, but definitely not my last, and I have already added her to my list of interesting religious philosophers along with Pascal and Kierkegaard. Without our knowing or feeling it, this apparently barren effort has brought more light into the soul.Simone Weil is mentioned several times in the correspondence of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (compiled in the book "Striving Towards Being"). There is an equally wide divergence between my instinctive reactions and those of a militant supporter of the extreme left. Harkening back to the myth of Semele, Weil compares suffering to a “screen” standing between humankind and God.

She firmly believed that creation of real genius required a high level of spirituality and that it was impossible to attain to perfect expression without having passed through severe inner purgation.Thinking Christians will value Weil’s contributions here, in her most accessible work that inspires spiritual pondering more than preaching.