“Three years ago I was giving a workshop in the Rockies.
A student came in bearing a quote from what she said was the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno.
It read,
“‘How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally
unknown to you?'”
I copied it down, and it has stayed with me since…
“The question she carried struck me as the basic tactical question in life. The things we want
are transformative, and we don’t know or only know what is on the other side of that
transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration – how do you go about finding these things
that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about
becoming someone else?”
(Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost. 5)
