Simone Weil: Mystic and Activist

A razor has a sharp intellect, intense selflessness, passion for justice, and unflinching honesty. Simone Weil was a brilliant philosopher and political activist who had profound experiences of the divine. She called for a spirituality of deep attention to the world. While highly admiring Catholicism, she was an undaunted critic of the institution.

“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”