Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). G…

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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). Gravity and Grace, p.122, Psychology Press
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One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last … ▶
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). Gravity and Grace, p.122, Psychology Press

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