No one can know in advance how one will be used, or when, or what one's life will count for in the long run. The young Pablo Casals, while pouring his life energy into years of practice on the cello, could not guess that when Franco came to power, he would stop playing for three years, and that the silence would be heard throughout Spain as if the streets were full of demonstrators....
When the need for bread is met we discover that we have other hungers, and none so deep as the hunger to be understood. The artist helps us to interpret, understand and communicate feeling. When the artist is successful we are led into communion with ourselves and with the world, and the solitary work becomes a communal work. For want of this we walk on parched land.
This is so Poignant and Profound - volumes can be written about this and yet, like Pablo Casals, the Silence is Deafening because it feeds "the hunger" in the Soul with much to Contemplate. In the Prayer of St. Francis -"Instrument of Peace" - it is Prayed": "That I may seek to Understand rather than to BE Understood". I believe that this sums up so well the author's insight into the "The Hunger to Be Understood" as well. For "...when the Artist (and also the SAINT) is successful we are led into communion with ourselves and with the world, and the Solitary work becomes a communal work". "FOR WANT OF THIS WE WALK ON PARCHED LAND" - for want of "ARTISTS, HEROES and SAINTS" to allow themselves to be USED by GOD, when HE DESIRES it and in WHOSE PURPOSES One's Life will count for in the long run"!!!
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