
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
Sobornost (1977)
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
“… love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”
Source: Love the One You're With
“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Love (1947), p. 270
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity
Context: Consciousness (conscientia) is participated knowledge, is co-feeling, and co-feeling is com-passion. Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea. And when love is so great and so vital, so strong and so overflowing, that it loves everything, then it personalizes everything and discovers that the total All, that the Universe, is also a person possessing a Consciousness, a Consciousness which in its turn suffers, pities, and loves, and therefore is consciousness. And this Consciousness of the Universe, which a love, personalizing all that it loves, discovers, is what we call God.
“Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity
Context: Consciousness (conscientia) is participated knowledge, is co-feeling, and co-feeling is com-passion. Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea. And when love is so great and so vital, so strong and so overflowing, that it loves everything, then it personalizes everything and discovers that the total All, that the Universe, is also a person possessing a Consciousness, a Consciousness which in its turn suffers, pities, and loves, and therefore is consciousness. And this Consciousness of the Universe, which a love, personalizing all that it loves, discovers, is what we call God.
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.435
“Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.”
Source: A Practical Guide to Samadhi (1957), p. 144