Simone Weil ~ Attention and Pure Silence ~ Christian Mystics

A selection of some key pointers for meditation from Simone Weil
taken from various texts and sources.  


Simone Adolphine Weil (1909 -1943) was a French philosopher,
mystic, and political activist.  Weil received spiritual
direction from a Dominican friar and learned much from the
Catholic author Gustave Thibon. She was especially rooted in
Neoplatonic thinking in her spiritual writings. Yet her spiritual
curiosity took her far. She learned Sanskrit to read the Bhagavad
Gita. She studied Mahayana Buddhism and the ancient Greek and
Egyptian mystery religions. She believed that each religion, when
we are within it, is true. But she was opposed to religious
syncretism. She saw a blending of religions as diminishing the
particularity of each tradition and the truth of that path to
God. Though she learned from other faiths, she plunged deeper
into her own Catholicism. For Weil, truth was deeply personal and
could only be approached through deep introspection. She
experienced a powerful and ecstatic experience in the same church
where Saint Francis had prayed. Weil wrote intensely about
spirituality, mysticism, beauty and social struggle. Her writings
sought to develop the intellectual consequences of the religious
experiences she was having.


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