divinity / transcendence
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. It is the same with the act of love. To know that this man who is hungry and thirsty really exists as much as I do — that is enough, the rest follows of itself.
To know that something is ugly is to know that it is true.
Attention and Will by Simone Weil
Link“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love” Simone Weil
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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The divine mystery is not to be solved, but to be admired. We do not need to make sense of the world around us, only to appreciate its enigma.
There is wonder and beauty in emptiness. What happens when we come to know that everything we experience is timelessly ephemeral – as fleeting as a “tiny drop of dew or a bubble floating in a stream”? As writer Octavia Butler invokes, what if God is change? I become present with each moment as a divine gift. I become wholly intimate with each... See more