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students were tested by giving them oranges. The student described | students were tested by giving them oranges. The student described | ||
the nature of his/her orange, put it back on the table, then had to | the nature of his/her orange, put it back on the table, then had to | ||
find which was his/hers. He quotes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide Gide] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus Camus] to illustrate the | find which was his/hers. He quotes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide Gide]<ref> | ||
'Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than | |||
sadness; once you make this all-important discovery you must embrace | |||
joy as a moral obligation' —<br> Thus does Jack Kornfield quote | |||
André Gide in 'The nature of things' (re-used in 'Karma part | |||
2'). | |||
<br> | |||
A French Redditor tipped me to the source, 'Les nouvelles nourritures | |||
terrestres', available at | |||
https://www.ebooksgratuits.com/html/gide_nouvelles_nourritures_terrestres.html | |||
<br> | |||
The original is, «Il má depuis longtemps paru que la joie | |||
était plus rare, plus difficile et plus belle que la | |||
tristesse. Et quand jéus fait cette découverte, la plus | |||
importante sans doute qui se puisse faire durant cette vie, la joie | |||
devint pour moi non seulement (ce quélle était) un | |||
besoin naturel - mais bien encore une obligation morale.» | |||
<br> | |||
Google translates it to, 'It has long seemed to me that joy is rarer, | |||
more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. And when I had made | |||
this discovery, arguably the most important that could be made in this | |||
lifetime, joy became for me not only (what it was) a natural need - | |||
but a moral obligation as well.' | |||
</ref> | |||
and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus Camus]<ref>'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.' | |||
<br> | |||
Thus Jack Kornfield quotes Albert Camus in 'The nature of things' | |||
(re-used in 'Karma part 2'). | |||
<br> | |||
It's from the preface of 'L'envers et l'endroit' ('The wrong side and | |||
the right side', 1937; the preface in 1958): | |||
<br> | |||
«Voici encore... Oui, rien n'empêche de rêver, à l'heure même de | |||
l'exil, puisque du moins je sais cela, de science certaine, qu'une | |||
œuvre d'homme n'est rien d'autre que ce long cheminement pour | |||
retrouver par les détours de l'art les deux ou trois images simples et | |||
grandes sur lesquelles le cœur, une première fois, s'est ouvert.» | |||
<br> | |||
https://apprendre.forumgratuit.org/t107-albert-camus-preface-de-l-envers-et-l-endroit | |||
<br> | |||
It's available in English translation in 'Personal writings' (Knopf | |||
Doubleday 2020) | |||
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/personal-writings-albert-camus/1134654831 | |||
- their translation: | |||
<br> | |||
'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.'</ref>to illustrate the | |||
value of perceiving joy.<ref name=Karma2 /> | value of perceiving joy.<ref name=Karma2 /> | ||
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== Shared material == | == Shared material == | ||
* Karma Parts [[Karma (Part 1)|1]], [[Karma (Part 2)|2]], [[Karma (Part 3)|3 | * Karma Parts [[Karma (Part 1)|1]], [[Karma (Part 2)|2]], [[Karma (Part 3)|3]], [[Karma (Part 6)|6]], [[Karma (Part 7)|7]], [[Karma Redux]], [[Karma Don't Deny Me]], and [[The Angina Dialogues]] | ||
== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
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as my starting point, 'The nature of things' seemed a later episode, | as my starting point, 'The nature of things' seemed a later episode, | ||
because every segment is also in a 'Karma' episode, but it precedes | because every segment is also in a 'Karma' episode, but it precedes | ||
'Karma Part 1'. [http://wfmu.org/JF/joe_show.html WFMU's notes] place the show in 2002 - they made the | 'Karma Part 1'. [http://wfmu.org/JF/joe_show.html WFMU's notes] place | ||
same mistake. | the show in 2002 - they made the same mistake. | ||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||