Gravity and Grace

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception.

We must always expect things to happen in conformity with the laws of gravity unless there is supernatural intervention. 

What is the reason that as soon as one human being shows he needs another (no matter whether his need be slight or great) the latter draws back from him? Gravity.

Lear, a tragedy of gravity.Every thing  we call base is a phenomenon due to gravity. Moreover the word baseness is an indication of the fact.

The source of man's moral energy is outside him, like that of his physical energy(food, air etc.). He generally finds it, and that is why he has the illusion- as on the physical plane- that his being carries the principle of its presevation within itself.

Simone Weil