“As soon as we have a point of eternity in the soul, we have nothing more to do but take care of it, for it will grow of itself like a seed. It is necessary to surround it with an armed guard. waiting in stillness, and to nourish it with the contemplation of numbers, of fixed and exact relationships. We nourish the changeless which is in the soul by the contemplation of that which is unchanging in the body.”
Simone Weil, Gravity & Grace
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“In relation to the religious he is an unhappy lover; that is, he is not a believer in strict sense; he possesses only the first part of faith: despair — and in it a fervent longing for the religious. He conflict is really this: Has he been called? Does the thron in the flesh mean that he is to be used for the extraordinary? Before God, is it entirely in order that he has become this extraordinary person? Or is the thorn in the flesh something under which he is to humble himself in order to attain what is universally human?”
Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death, pg. 101 trns. Bruce H. Kirmmse
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