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Simone Weil
“We want to get behind the beauty, but it is only a surface. It is like a mirror that reflects to us our own desire for good. It is a sphinx, an enigma, a sorrowfully irritating mystery. We want to feed on it, but it is only an object we can look on; it appears to us from a certain distance. The great sorrow of human life is knowing that to look and to eat are two different operations. Only on the other side of heaven, where God lives, are they one and the same operation. Children already experience this sorrow when they look at a cake for a long time and nearly regret eating it, but are powerless to help themselves. Maybe the vices, depravities and crimes are nearly always or even always in their essence attempts to eat beauty, to eat what one can only look at. Eve initiated this. If she lost our humanity by eating a fruit, the reverse attitude— looking at a fruit without eating it— must be what saves.”
Simone Weil, Waiting for God

Simone Weil
“If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like justice, 'that fugitive from the camp of conquerors'.”
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

Simone Weil
“One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.”
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Simone Weil
“The beauty of this world is Christ's tender smile coming to us through matter.”
Simone Weil, Waiting for God

“We must see creation as a garden and not exclusively as a business opportunity.”
Bruce Sanguin , Darwin, Divinity, and the Dance of the Cosmos: An Ecological Christianity

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