Kathryn Oliver | Henry Miller on Dostoyevsky @festivalonearth | Uploaded November 2017 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
"We were not meant to live by bread alone. We were meant to live by our whole being. But the nature of this being is being lost, forgotten, buried. We’ve got to recognize ourselves for what we are. And what are we but the end product of a tree that can no longer bear fruit. We’ve got to go underground, therefore, like seed, so that something new, something different, may come forth. It isn’t time that’s required, it’s a new way of looking at things. Dostoevsky, let me remind you, had amazing insight into the mind and spirit of the universe. Of putting one’s trust in the life- force itself." - Henry Miller
"We were not meant to live by bread alone. We were meant to live by our whole being. But the nature of this being is being lost, forgotten, buried. We’ve got to recognize ourselves for what we are. And what are we but the end product of a tree that can no longer bear fruit. We’ve got to go underground, therefore, like seed, so that something new, something different, may come forth. It isn’t time that’s required, it’s a new way of looking at things. Dostoevsky, let me remind you, had amazing insight into the mind and spirit of the universe. Of putting one’s trust in the life- force itself." - Henry Miller
