My heart roars at the enraging desert "So, the question of evil, like the question of ugliness, refers primarily to the anaesthetized heart, the heart that has no reaction to what it faces, thereby turning the variegated sensuous face of the world into monotony, sameness, oneness. The desert of modernity." "According to Physiologus (the traditional lore of animal psychology), the lion’s cubs are still-born. They must be awakened into life by a roar. That is why the lion has such a roar: to awaken the young lions asleep, as they sleep in our hearts. Evidently, the thought of the heart is not simply given, a native spontaneous reaction, always ready and always there. Rather, the heart must be provoked, called forth, which is precisely Marsilio Ficino’s etymology of beauty; kallos.,he says, comes from kaleo, provoke." compilerpress.ca/Competitiveness/Anno/Anno%20Hillman%20Thoughts.htm#The_lion_roars_at_the_enraging_desert_
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