Joy Williams
Tag: god
Anne Carson
Cat Power: “Amazing Grace”
The object of our search should not be the supernatural, but the world. The supernatural
is light itself: If we make an object of it, we lower it.
Simone Weil
God is not an additional existent, but the Spirit in which all existing things are seen. […] God does not belong to the world of finite things, but gives sense to it.
Cf. Dewi Z. Phillips, “God and Concept-Formation in Simone Weil,” in Simone
Weil’s Philosophy of Culture, ed. Richard Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1993), 77–92
Weil’s Philosophy of Culture, ed. Richard Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1993), 77–92
I am not worried at all about my dear Master. It has always been far from me to think that God’s mercy allows itself to be circumscribed by the visible church’s boundaries. God is truth. All who seek truth seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.
Edith Stein
He whose soul remains ever turned toward God though the nail pierces it finds himself nailed to the very center of the universe,
Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Blanchot, from “Literature and The Right to Death” (full text here)
Anne Carson, from “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent” by Anne Carson, A Public Space, Issue 7 / 2008 (full text here)
Susan Sontag from “The Aesthetics of Silence”
Rembrandt, Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar, 1659
Francis Bacon, Self Portrait, 1973.
Anne Carson, from Nox
Louise Gluck from Proofs & Theories
Anne Carson, from “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent” by Anne Carson, A Public Space, Issue 7 / 2008 (full text here)
Little Bristling Soul 