Meredith Smith

“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?”
― Simone Weil

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― 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.”
― Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

“We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”
― Simone Weil