Give as you eat*

Cel care, vazand un nenorocit,
isi transporta in el fiinta,
da nastere - din iubire - in cel nenorocit,
macar pentru o clipa,
unei existente independente de nenorocire.
[...]
Transporatandu-si fiinta insasi in cel pe care il ajuta,
el ii da pentru o clipa acea existenta proprie
de care nenorocirea l-a lipsit.

Simone Weil/Autobiografie spirituala

The one who, seeing an unhappy person, transports his very own being in there,
makes happened - through love - in the wretched one,
just for a moment, a fully independent existence of his unhappiness.
[...]
By transporting our own being into the person whom we help,
we give him back for a moment his true existence -
the one from which he was deprived by his unhappines.

(well, the text is in a Romanian editions of selected works
but they don't mentioned which is the original books they were chosing from.)

*
Cei pe care Dumnezeu ii va rasplati
dau asa cum mananca.
The ones who God will reward
give as they eat.
S.W.