Silence | Sounds: We must learn to suffer
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things - of diverse tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, sprightly and solemn: the musician who should only effect some of these, what would he be able to do? he must know how to make use of them all, and to mix them; and so we should mingle the goods and evils which are consubstantial with our life; our being cannot subsist without this mixture, and the one part is no less necessary to it than the other. To attempt to kick against natural necessity, is to represent the folly of Ctesiphon, who undertook to kick with his mule.
—Michel de Montaigne: Of Experience
(Thank you, silencesounds & jamreilly)
Source: jamreilly
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A parabola is one of the most dynamic forms in nature. It is the curve of a bowl, the path of a ball soaring upward and down to earth again. The founder of this magazine decided it was a good name for a journal devoted to the search for meaning, which often goes outward, then back home again along a different path.
