Simone Weil Quotes

We eat light, drink it in through our skins

Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

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.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

There is no glimpse of the light without walking the path. You can't get it from anyone else, nor can you give it to anyone. Just take whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps it will be easier for you to take a few more.

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

Be a light unto oneself

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty, a different grace. And when your inner being is changed and becomes a flame of light, you will become a light unto others too. You will become a beckoning light, a great herald of a new dawn. Your very presence will trigger revolutions in other people's lives.

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

A warrior balances solitude and dependence.

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.