Something you cannot possibly do
Aug. 31st, 2005 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sun_set_bravelyFrom Rob Brezsny's "Pronoia":
Sculptor Henry Moore had a slightly different angle: "The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is — it must be something you cannot possibly do."
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These words carry a theme that I find fascinating: that of striving toward something impossible and being transformed by the effort. I think of Zen meditation's goal of clearing the mind of thoughts, some of the movements my Pilates teacher asks our class to do ("you want me to move that with what??"). I think there's something to this.
Sculptor Henry Moore had a slightly different angle: "The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is — it must be something you cannot possibly do."
~ ~ ~
These words carry a theme that I find fascinating: that of striving toward something impossible and being transformed by the effort. I think of Zen meditation's goal of clearing the mind of thoughts, some of the movements my Pilates teacher asks our class to do ("you want me to move that with what??"). I think there's something to this.
