[joe-frank-list] 'A person's life is a slow trek to rediscover...'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	In 'The nature of things' (re-used in 'Karma part 2') Jack
Kornfield quotes Camus: 'A person's life is a slow trek to rediscover
through the detours of art those 2 or 3 moments in whose presence the
heart first opened.'
	It's from the preface of 'L'envers et l'endroit' ('The wrong
side and the right side', 1937; the preface in 1958), 'Voici
encore... Oui, rien n'empeche de rever, a l'heure meme de l'exil,
puisque du moins je sais cela, de science certaine, qu'une oeuvre
d'homme n'est rien d'autre que ce long cheminement pour retrouver par
les detours de l'art les deux ou trois images simples et grandes sur
lesquelles le coeur, une premiere fois, s'est ouvert.' (diacritical
marks removed)
	https://apprendre.forumgratuit.org/t107-albert-camus-preface-de-l-envers-et-l-endroit
	It's available in English translation in 'Personal writings'
(Knopf Doubleday 2020) https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/personal-writings-albert-camus/1134654831 
 - their translation, 'Here again... Yes, nothing prevents one from
dreaming, in the very hour of exile, since at least I know this, with
sure and certain knowledge: a man's work is nothing but this slow trek
to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great
and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.'

russell bell