...lamp Close to my breast; its splendour, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge one day. TO BE ROOTED IS PERHAPS the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. It is one of the hardest to define. A human being has roots by virtue of his real, active and natural...

...arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Spirituality, Religion, and Belonging To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.1 Simone Weil, The Need for Roots A football cheerleader at the University of Mississippi in 1982,...

...Weil posed the dilemma of exile as concisely as it has ever been expressed. "To be rooted," she said, "is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul." Yet Weil also saw that most remedies for uprootedness in this era of world wars, deportations and mass...

...Dante's hell. Simone Weil's comments from The Need for Roots have haunted me during the past few months. "To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul." Saying good-byes and closing boxes pulled up my anchoring roots one by one. I understand very well...

...members, were voted the "burial privilege" at a special meeting of the synagogue's board of trustees. 65 To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human sou!. Simone Weil Dore Ashton noticed Rothko's fondness for words that have the prefix "trans," words...

...members, were voted the "burial privilege" at a special meeting of the synagogue's board of trustees. 65 To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need tj fh<» liumdH jflul. Simone Weil Dore Ashton noticed Rothko's fondness for words that have the prefix...

...des lendemains * The word "home" is shot through with ambiguity. "To be rooted," wrote Simone Weil, "is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul." But isn't it also true that we often feel an equally strong need to uproot ourselves and cross the...

...project among the many possible discussions on postcoloniality. Epilogue. All homesickness is fiction To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. Simone Weil we pretend that we are trees and speak of roots. Look under your feet. You will not find...

...(Quinby 1991, 147-148). Others, though, prominently Simone Weil, have argued strongly for attachment: "To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. ... A human being has roots by virtue of his real, active, and natural participation in the life of...

...sex, comfort, order, esteem, above all rootedness. ("To be rooted," as Simone Weil has shrewdly noted, "is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.") Those provided by the state — taxation, standing armies, police, regulations, bureaucracies, courts,...