.
You cannot become attached to human beings, things, or landscapes without suffering immediately taking up a position at your side. This is
probably a trite remark.
Yet a much stranger fate brings you face to
face with uprootedness. It is better, then, to accept the suffering at
your side. And illuminate it with love.
—Pierre-Albert Jourdan
John Taylor translation
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You cannot become attached to human beings, things, or landscapes
without suffering immediately taking up a position at your side.
This is
probably a trite remark.
Yet a much stranger fate brings you face to
face with uprootedness.
It is better, then, to accept the suffering at
your side.
And illuminate it with love.
—Pierre-Albert Jourdan
from The Approach, John Taylor translation
.
