understanding – Little Bristling Soul

batvalentinworld:

I do not understand. Understanding is far too little. To have understood is to be fixed, immobilized. It’s as though one wanted to stop on one step in the middle of a staircase, or with one foot in the void and the other on the endless stair. But a mere why, a new why can set one off again, can unpetrify what was petrified and everything starts flowing afresh. How can one “understand”? One cannot.

(When I shall no longer exist, God will say: “I do a lot of things that everybody understands. There’s nobody left not to understand them.”)

Eugene Ionesco – Fragments of a Journal