One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
Simone WeilThere is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
Simone WeilThe contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
Simone WeilJustice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.
Simone Weil