The Mad Prayer - Simone Weil Father, in the name of Christ, grant me this. That I may be unable to will any bodily movement, like a total paralytic. That I may be incapable of receiving any sensation, like someone who is completely blind, deaf, and deprived of all the senses. That I may be unable to make the slightest connection between two thoughts, even the simplest, like the total idiots who not only cannot read or count but have never learned to speak. That I may be insensible to every kind of grief and joy, and incapable of any love for any being or thing, and not even for myself like old people in the last stage of decrepitude. Father, in the name of Christ, grant me all this in reality. May this body move or be still, with perfect suppleness or rigidity, in continuous conformity with thy will. May my powers of hearing, sight, taste, smell and touch register the perfectly accurate impress of thy creation. May this mind, in fullest lucidity, connect all ideas in perfect conformity with thy truth. May this sensibility experience, in their greatest possible experience, in their greatest possible intensity and in all their purity, all the nuances of grief and joy. May all this love be an absolutely devouring flame of love of God by God. May all these things be stripped from me, devoured by God, transformed into Christ’s substance and given for food to afflicted men whose body and soul lack every kind of nourishment. And let me be a paralytic, blind, deaf, witless and utterly decrepit. Father, bring about this transformation now, in the name of Christ; and even if I ask for it with an imperfect faith, grant this request as if it was pronounced with a perfect faith. Father, since thou art Good and I am mediocrity, rend this body and soul away from me to make them into things for your use and let nothing remain of me, forever, except this rending itself, or nothingness.

34 min: Flow = karma yoga, act for the action's sake. 47 min: perfect!!! Surrender, acceptance. If I meditate for hours, the next day will hold my rewards of peace, sensitivity, awareness, etc.

"We are the ones responsible for the divine presence on this earth . . . God is not up there doing things for us, performing miracles on our behalf; if we're not there to channel God, to be the vessels of divine love and compassion, there is no God." well put, thanks for posting

Your lectures are so beautiful. God bless you!

Your class has touched my heart. Thanks for conducting it so well and posting it on KZfaq

I am 13 minutes in, beautiful so far, thank you. 🙏 Humility is everything.

so nervous, so unsure! I could never be convinced by this lecture of anything. Perhaps I'm not on the 'God' frequency??

Acompanhei ate os primeiros 7 minutos e resolvi dar uma parada... O modo como a professora estava expondo Weil me pareceu indecisa, como se ela mesma nao acreditasse no que procurava dizer... Tambem nao sei se uma sala de aula e o lugar mais certo para se falar de quem nao foi uma academica mas antes alguem cuja vida intensa e apaixinada viveu cada minuto dela voltada para o sofrimento dos outros.. Bem, nao devo avaliar minhas impressoes portao poucos minutos... Mas o pouco que ate agora recebi de Weil por ela propria e outras fontes, me torna um pouco seletivo no seu conhecimento...So isso...

Wonderful discovery

thank you for this excellent resource! wondering if it's accurate to say she's a convert to Catholicism? I thought she never actually converted, remained an "outsider"... I remember reading a sentence like "she thirsted for the Eucharist but never converted officially, as a protest against the Church's wrongs"

Speldid..Waiting For Pt.2 :)

Does anyone do videos like this summarizing her book “Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks”?