My feelings and responses to what I saw were way in advance of my ability to do. The ability to do is a rather delicate, organic thing. It cannot be willed. It cannot be pushed, by force, to mature. It takes its own good time, and the best thing one can do about it is keep oneself aware, work, and be patient, and with all the compassion, with all the fever that he has, is very important. Rilke talks about that in his letters to a young poet, how important it is to ask all the questions but not to expect any answers. Because if you ask the questions, you eventually will live the questions, and they will answer themselves.
Friedel Dzubas, 1982 (ISBN: 0-9653805-6-4)
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3 comments:
So, what are your questions? What questions have you lived? I watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy again over the weekend, and despite all the silliness, the distinction made between the ultimate answer and the ultimate question was thought-provoking. What questions do you ask in your art?
I have been pondering and pondering this post since you put it up a month ago. Finally I had to conclude that the reason I struggled to have anything to say was that it is the words of someone else. That is well and good to read, but only if I can also read how well it matches your own insights. How did coming across Friedel Dzubas's words influence you?
Hitchhiker's Guide poses some interesting, in not bizarre and humorous, possibilities. The main point for me, in my thinking at the present time, is that what we think of as reality (at this time on this planet) is more influenced by our perspective than anything else. That is, how we choose to see things becomes the sum of what they are. Add to this the dilemma of limited vision, and well, we have blind men with an elephant. In all seriousness - I have had experiences that indicate that there is much more that is unseen, and connections to the cosmos in grand and macrolific (is that a word) ways to inspire a sense of belonging to something much bigger than humanity commonly supposes. (More later).
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