“The love of our neighbour in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, 'What are you going through?'”
Permalink: Simone Weil
About this quote
Weil writes this in her reflections on attention, and immediately explains that the question must be asked without collapsing the other person into a category. For her, the question is not small talk but the whole of what love of neighbour consists in.
Source: Waiting for God