Mystic Monday: Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”

If part of Christian Mysticism is about disruption of the routine and common, in keeping with what Jesus did through teaching, miracle, and witness, then there may be no figure more disruptive than Simone Weil, a French philosopher and mystic who has been among the most quoted and referenced of the last century.

Her status as a Christian mystic is partic…