The examined life …

… Simone Weil on Temptation, the Key to Discipline, and How to Be a Complete Human Being | Brain Pickings. (Hat tip, David Tothero.)

It is useful, though, to remember the profoundly religious dimension of Weil's life. No mention of that here. To complement reading Weil's notebooks with works by Gide, Tolstoy, and Sontag — as is suggested at the end — seems almost to descend from the sublime to the ridiculous.