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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Simone Weil
Beauty, Heart, Two

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

Simone Weil
Heart, World, Longing
Simone Weil, Janet Patricia Little (2003). “Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

Simone Weil
Prayer, Heart, Attentiveness

Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.

Simone Weil
Religious, Heart, Son
"Letter to a Priest". Book by Simone Weil, section 8, 1951.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Simone Weil
Heart, Evil, Teeth
Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.59, Routledge

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

Simone Weil
Prayer, Heart, Soul
Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

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