Rachel

“When humankind writes new laws of behavior for the world, in some Time quite different from now, one of the first must be that no one will harm anyone less powerful without first visiting her or him; eating and drinking with her or him, and meeting his or her family. I am deeply disturbed by the long-distance murder of poor and defenseless people that passes for legitimate “war” in our time. It is incredibly cowardly, and I marvel that more people don’t jump up and down in the streets, pointing this out. How much courage does it take to point and shoot a missile at a town you’ve never seen, filled with children whose voices you’ve never heard?”
― Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness

“There is only waiting, attention, silence, immobility, constant through suffering and joy... We cannot take a single step towards heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenwards for a long time, God comes and takes us up. He raises us easily. As Aeschylus says: "There is no effort in what is divine." There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult for us than all of our efforts.”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God

“Every act should be considered from the point of view not of its object but of its impulsion. The question is not ‘What is the aim?’ It is ‘What is the origin?”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“I think time stands quite still and we move around in it, sometimes slowly and sometimes at a furious rate.”
― Marlen Haushofer, The Wall