Power of prayer on the soul. If one believes one will receive, the very fact of asking is an act. So the words themselves are acts. That is why they are hard to speak.
— Weil, First and Last Notebooks (tr. Rees)
Power of prayer on the soul. If one believes one will receive, the very fact of asking is an act. So the words themselves are acts. That is why they are hard to speak.
— Weil, First and Last Notebooks (tr. Rees)
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Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.
– Kafka