Simone Weil Quotes

To Accept What Is Bitter; Acceptance Must Not Be Allowed To Project Itself On To The Bitterness And Lessen It; Otherwise The Force And Purity Of The Acceptance Are Proportionally Lessened. For The Object Of The Acceptance Is To Taste What Is Bitter, As Such, And Not Anything Else. (St. Thomas On The Suffering Of Christ.) - To Say Like Ivan Karamazov: Nothing Can Possibly Make Up For A Single Tear From A Single Child. And Yet To Accept All Tears, And The Countless Horrors Which Lie Beyond Tears. To Accept These Things Not Simply In So Far As They May Admit Of Compensations, But In Themselves. To Accept That They Should Exist, Simply Because They Do Exist.
To Accept That Event Because It Exists, And By This Acceptance To Love God Through And Beyond It. To Accept That It Should Exist, Because It Does Exist, What Exactly Does This Mean? Is It Not Simply To Recognize That It Is?
When One Loves God Through And Beyond Evil As Such, It Is Indeed God Whom One Loves.

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