Re: A Conversation With Simone Weil
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:28 am
Vege wrote:
Simone Weil is called the “New Saint” not only because she had this quality of heart capable of opening to Plato’s verticality of being but the mind of a scientist as well. When I experienced this I was captured. Science and the essence of religion functioned in her being. This is a very rare and beautiful gem.
If society can ever grow to admit the importance of conscious attention and what is lost by sacrificing this ability for obsession with fragmentation, she will have done more for humanity than we can ever know. She wrote:
When I first started reading Simone Weil I had the distinct impression that I was for the first time in my life experiencing the pure heart of an evolving woman. I’m used to emotional women and it is hard to explain but their expressions are mixed and more guarded and superficial. Simone’s writings are pure. That is why she has this effect. She writes from the depth of her being so touches a person at the depth of their being.I might have missed it but did you say which of her ideas you like the most? Which have the most value to society in a practical sense?
Simone Weil is called the “New Saint” not only because she had this quality of heart capable of opening to Plato’s verticality of being but the mind of a scientist as well. When I experienced this I was captured. Science and the essence of religion functioned in her being. This is a very rare and beautiful gem.
If society can ever grow to admit the importance of conscious attention and what is lost by sacrificing this ability for obsession with fragmentation, she will have done more for humanity than we can ever know. She wrote:
The problem is that we imagine reality rather than experiencing it with conscious attention. As such everything repeats including the horrors of war. If humanity ever collectively recognizes the value of conscious attention the Great Beast will lose its power. It doesn’t want to so will struggle against it. Those like Simone do touch a minority who then make efforts to acquire conscious attention and benefit from it for their need to experience “meaning.” They will have a beneficial psychological influence on the collective human psyche."Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. It is given to very few minds to notice that things and beings exist. Since my childhood I have not wanted anything else but to receive the complete revelation of this before dying." ~Simone Weil