Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
Rene CharRead
What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience
Interpretation
This quote suggests that those who do not challenge the status quo are unworthy of consideration.
Rene Char's quote emphasizes the importance of making an impact in the world. It articulates that merely existing without causing disturbance or challenging accepted norms does not warrant respect or patience from others. In essence, it champions the idea that meaningful contributions and disruptions are necessary for growth and change.
In practice
During a motivational talk about making a difference in society.
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
How did writing come to me? Like birdβs down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.
Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
A poem is the realization of love. . . .
How can we live without the unknown before us?
Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.
It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.
We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.