This universe is an abandoned kingdom; its price is the w...

This universe is an abandoned kingdom; its price is the withdrawal of God, and its very existence is the cause of separation from God.

��� the space that God left in the world is located not so much outside God, but instead ���between��� God and God.

Evil is the distance between the creature and God.

God creates a finite being who says I, who cannot love God. By the effect of grace, little by little the I disappears, and God loves himself through the creature who becomes empty, who becomes nothing.

De-creation as transcendent completion of creation: annihilation in God that gives the annihilated creature the plenitude of being of which it is deprived so long as it exists.

To live while ceasing to exist so that in a self that is no longer the self God and his creation may find themselves face to face���.

��� the person in us is the part of us belonging to error and sin.

��� the ego is only the shadow projected by sin and error which blocks God���s light and which I take for a being.

Simone Weil