One must learn to love
This happens to us in music: first one must learn to hear a figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it, to isolate and delimit it as a life in itself; then one needs effort and good will to stand it despite its strangeness; patience with its appearance and expression, and kindheartedness about its oddity. Finally comes a moment when we are used to it; when we expect it; when we sense that we'd miss it if it were missing; and now it continues relentlessly to compel and enchant us until we have become its humble and enraptured lovers, who no longer want anything better from the world than it and it again. But this happens to us not only in music: it is in just this way that we have learned to love everything we now love. We are always rewarded in the end for our good will, our patience, our fair-mindedness and gentleness with what is strange, as it gradually casts off its veil and presents itself as a new and indescribable beauty.
That is its thanks for our hospitality. Even he who loves himself will have learned it this way - there is no other way. Love, too, must be learned.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Joyful Science
This happens to us in music: first one must learn to hear a figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it, to isolate and delimit it as a life in itself; then one needs effort and good will to stand it despite its strangeness; patience with its appearance and expression, and kindheartedness about its oddity. Finally comes a moment when we are used to it; when we expect it; when we sense that we'd miss it if it were missing; and now it continues relentlessly to compel and enchant us until we have become its humble and enraptured lovers, who no longer want anything better from the world than it and it again. But this happens to us not only in music: it is in just this way that we have learned to love everything we now love. We are always rewarded in the end for our good will, our patience, our fair-mindedness and gentleness with what is strange, as it gradually casts off its veil and presents itself as a new and indescribable beauty.
That is its thanks for our hospitality. Even he who loves himself will have learned it this way - there is no other way. Love, too, must be learned.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Joyful Science
Forwarded from Bücher 📖 (M.)
Bücher 📖
"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One should continously seek sublimation. Staying the same won't get you anywhere. And the encouragement for being oneself or "who we are" isn't always helpful, sometimes it is growth-hindering since the self leans toward comfort and it might be full of defects and errors that need to be abolished.
Bot:
سِر يا شقيُّ كفاكَ تشكو ما دهاك
ألعلَّ لا شاكٍ من البَلوى سواك
كم ذا تفتِّشُ عن مُواسٍ أو مُعين
هيهاتَ إِنَّ الناس مثلُك أجمعين
_نسيب عريضة
سِر يا شقيُّ كفاكَ تشكو ما دهاك
ألعلَّ لا شاكٍ من البَلوى سواك
كم ذا تفتِّشُ عن مُواسٍ أو مُعين
هيهاتَ إِنَّ الناس مثلُك أجمعين
_نسيب عريضة
خَلعتُ ثوبَ اصطِبارٍ كانَ يَستُرنُي
وبانَ كِذبُ ادِعائي أنَّني جَلِد
بكَيتُ حتَّى بكا من ليسَ يعرِفُني
ونُحتُ حتَّى حكاني طائرٌ غَرِد
- الجواهري
وبانَ كِذبُ ادِعائي أنَّني جَلِد
بكَيتُ حتَّى بكا من ليسَ يعرِفُني
ونُحتُ حتَّى حكاني طائرٌ غَرِد
- الجواهري