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“Just as we build a house or a cathedral with the same kind of stone, so we may use the same common and homely metaphors and images to convey truths on widely separated planes of discourse. ...And the highest is often best conveyed in terms of the lowest... In exploring the highest reaches of experience, we need a language as fresh and living as the truths with which we are in contact. For most mystics, this is the language of nerve tips.

E.W.F. Tomlin on Simone Weil's use of language.”
E.W.F. Tomlin

Hermann Hesse
“Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.”
Hermann Hesse

Ludwig Wittgenstein
“It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Rainer Maria Rilke
“Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Simone Weil
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Simone Weil

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