english lit student, fangirl, feminist
i love paris, rockabilly, bunny rabbits, comic books, the fitzgeralds and movies. happy to meet you!
but from this endless end
of briefer each our bliss-
where seeing eyes go blind
(where lips forget to kiss)
where everything's nothing
-arise,my soul;and sing
#lol let’s find and replace every ‘women are the strong ones’ with this #bc it’s said by a woman and not a crusty old white dude who writes flawed and often misogynistic books #(ﾉ◉ω◉)ﾉ *:･ﾟ’✿｡･:*:･ﾟ’❁
Simone Weil. On this quote, Stephen Mitchell made this comment:
“I love that. I think that could be as close as someone can get to a wonderful definition of prayer. In that sense, prayer has nothing spiritual or religious about it. A mathematician working at a problem or a little kid trying to pick out scales on the piano is a person at prayer. She’s not saying prayer is absolute unmixed attention; it’s the other way. The attention itself is the quality that she wants to call prayer. So whatever context you’re putting it in, whether it’s inside a church or inside a toy box, that’s the quality that is the sacred one.”
(Ah! Thank you, dhammanovice)
