either/or v - the wedge
either spirit or matter
either God or daemon
either heaven or hell
either essayist or poet
either proliterian or bourgeoisie
either communist or capitalist
either hot or cold
either virtue or vice
either good or bad
either dead or alive
the symbol of division -either/or is a wedge - v
heart of dualism

both/and . - the ( Read more... )

By Simone Weil in Lettre a un religieuxThere is no reason whatever to suppose that after so atrocious a crime as the murder of a perfect being humanity must needs have become better; and, in fact taken in the mass, it does not appear to have done so ( Read more... )

Erat lux vera quae illuminat omnem hominem venientem in hunc mundum. - Liber Iohni 1.9

"That was the true Light, which lights every man who comes into this world."

The hardest thing to accept right now is that there stands within me a deep crevice, seperating will from Truth. Admiting even this much entails a complete reformluation of what means 'to be'.
Existence places one outside of being.
Existence - all I know.
Being - all I strive for ( Read more... )

from Simone Weil's book Gravity and Grace"'How can we escape from that which corresponds to gravity in ourselves?' By grace alone. In order to come to us, God passes through the infinite thickness of time and space; his grace changes nothing in the play of those blind forces of necessity and change which guide the world; it penetrates into our soul ( Read more... )

by G.K. Chesterton ( Read more... )

yesterday i met one of the most awesome people in existence. it made me really freakin' happy hanging out with them, and i hope that it happens again. very soon.

The battle is uphill from here (or maybe it always has been. the light of truth has just revealed the utter wretchedness of remaining in perpetual rebellion against the only thing that exists, which is both the Ground of our Being, and that Supreme Object of our Love) . fighting, sometimes in utter helplessness, against an enemy which is noone but ( Read more... )

the man toils ( Read more... )

emotions can be such a trick.
just like a jumbled sentence.
do i know what love is?
or can in only conjure up a notion?

and do i know how to love
without knowing love?
because that notion just isn't strong enough.
("wait". i tell myself, "isn't that why i pray!?")

he must have read my mind ( Read more... )