This is the first video I have seen of yours. I am not very familiar with Weil but am finding your exposition very helpful. Very nicely written. Am going to check out other things on your channel.
Desire directs toward god is de only force capable of elevating de soul. Attention is de natural prayer of de soul. O my soul! remember past strivings: I am that which wants to master congfu
I can't help to think that Weil's ideas on Attention are similar to those on Meditation. The following is from WAITING FOR GOD: Attention is an effort, the greatest of all efforts perhaps, but it is a negative effort. Of itself, it does not involve tiredness. When we become tired, attention is scarcely possible any more, unless we have already had a good deal of practice. It is better to stop working altogether, to seek some relaxation, and then a little later to return to the task; we have to press on and loosen up alternately, just as we breathe in and out. Twenty minutes of concentrated, untired attention is infinitely better than three hours of the kind of frowning application which leads us to say with a sense of duty done: “I have worked well!” But, in spite of all appearances, it is also far more difficult. There is something in our soul which has a far more violent repugnance for true attention than the flesh has for bodily fatigue...
This is the first video I have seen of yours. I am not very familiar with Weil but am finding your exposition very helpful. Very nicely written. Am going to check out other things on your channel.
Before he flew to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Albert Camus visited the house in Paris where Simone Weil lived.
Because Simone Weil is the only great soul of his generation
interesting person, worth knowing about
That’s very much like kenosis with some directed focus.
Could anyone write down the lines from 426 to 435 ?
Very Quaker! Expectant waiting…❤
Attention is a moral act--Iain McGilchrist.
As a side note, this approach to attention also improves the flavor of food.
Desire directs toward god
is de only force
capable of elevating de soul.
Attention is de natural prayer of de soul.
O my soul!
remember past strivings:
I am that which wants to master congfu
de?
I can't help to think that Weil's ideas on Attention are similar to those on Meditation. The following is from WAITING FOR GOD: Attention is an effort, the greatest of all efforts perhaps, but it is a negative effort. Of itself, it does not involve tiredness. When we become tired, attention is scarcely possible any more, unless we have already had a good deal of practice. It is better to stop working altogether, to seek some relaxation, and then a little later to return to the task; we have to press on and loosen up alternately, just as we breathe in and out.
Twenty minutes of concentrated, untired attention is infinitely better than three hours of the kind of frowning application which leads us to say with a sense of duty done: “I have worked well!”
But, in spite of all appearances, it is also far more difficult. There is something in our soul which has a far more violent repugnance for true attention than the flesh has for bodily fatigue...