Simone Weil Quotes

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon

We eat light, drink it in through our skins

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power gives strength unto my limbs. In sunlight shining clear I revere, Oh God, the strength of humankind, which thou has planted in my soul, that I may with all my might, may love to work and learn. From thee stream light and strength to thee rise love and thanks.

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.

What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.

You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you.