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Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963 Social enthusiasms have such power today, they raise people so effectively to the supreme degree of heroism in suffering and death, that I think it is as well that a few sheep should remain outside the fold in order to bear witness that the love of Christ is essentially something different. Topic: Christianity
Author: Simone Weil
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. Topic: Christianity
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God. Topic: Music
Author: 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. Topic: Oppression
Author: Simone Weil
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Simone Weil
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. Topic: Reality
Author: Simone Weil
Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention. Topic: Unhappiness
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention. Topic: Unhappiness 1 |
Author: Simone Weil