Simone Weil is widely recognized as one of the brilliant and original minds of twentieth-century France. Now known primarily as a religious thinker she also devoted enormous energy in her formative years to work as a political activist and as a philosopher/teacher. Jewish by upbringing, in the later years of her life Simone Weil turned more and more towards Catholicism, having had several mystical experiences which deeply affected her thought. Gravity and Grace shows her religious thoughts and ideas, drawn from many sources - Christian, Jewish, Indian, Greek and Hindu - and.focusing on suffering and redemption. It brings the reader face to face with the profoundest levels of existence as Weil explores the relationship of the human condition to the realm of the transcendent.