Daniele Bendandi

“Love needs reality. What is more terrible than the discovery that through a bodily appearance we have been loving an imaginary being. It is much more terrible than death, from death does not prevent the Beloved from having lived.
That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a determination necessarily arises from an obsession. It constitutes an utterly sterile effort to get rid of it. In such a case the light of attention is the only thing which is effective, and it is not compatible with a polemical intention.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.”
― Cynthia Bourgeault, Love Is Stronger Than Death: The Mystical Union of Two Souls