We Are All Looking for God

...though we call it by a thousand other names.

“It is not surprising that in temptation men so often have the feeling of something absolute which infinitely surpasses them, which they cannot resist. The absolute is indeed there.” — Simone Weil, from “The Implicit Forms of the Love of God”

Here, Simone Wiel is talking about the transcendent. Ecstasy. Union. The same moment of connection that the artis…