In Milan Kunderas The Book of Laughter and Forgetting there is a scene involving Kundera and his father who, a stroke victim, has difficulty speaking. The father had studied Beethovens sonatas and their magical variations for years. His barely coherent remarks trigger in Kundera an understanding that the greatest journey is not into the infinity of the external universe, but to that other infinity, into the infinite diversity of the interior world lying hidden in all things. To explore that is more than a lifetimes rich work. Right now, the greater challenge is to offer an irresistible invitation to look differently and afresh at the world, and imagine how we can allow life here to flourish.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:55:19 +0000
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