Reality

“It is necessary to have had a revelation of reality through joy in order to find reality through suffering,”
~Simone Weil

“I don’t really think it’s possible for humans to be at the same time conscious and comfortable...I would qualify Weil’s statement somewhat, then, by saying that reality, be it of this world or another, is not something one finds and then retains for good. It must be newly discovered daily, and newly lost.”
~Christian Wiman