There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
/ Leonard Cohen
Min drygt 20-åriga kärlek till Cohens musik och texter kommer sig nog av att det finns så många lager och bottnar i dem. Det är musik som funkar oavsett sinnesstämning och kan ge utlopp för såväl längtan, saknad och sorg som glädje och hopp. Likaså det här citatet som för mig förknippas mest med hopp.. om än med ett stråk av vemod. Det finns alltid en strimma av ljus därborta om du bara tillåter dig att se den.
Jag läste nyligen en intervju med LC som väcker andra tankar:
In another song you also say "There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in". It is not a very happy thought to believe that something will always have to break, to open a crack, in order to the light gets in...
"It is a happy thought if we enjoy the truth. There is always something that will have to break. Usually it is our personal pride. A buddhist thinker said that disappointment is a great way to illumination. Other masters said: 'from the broken debris of my heart I will erect an altar to the lord'.
The idea that there is a staircase of gold and marble, which leads to knowledge is seductive, but seems to me that the idea of something needing to get broken before we can learn anything is a more true idea. It is my experience, maybe you can escape it, but I doubt it. Unless the heart breaks, we will never know anything about love. As long as our objective universe doesn't collapse, we'll never know anything about the world."
/ Kristina
Jag läste nyligen en intervju med LC som väcker andra tankar:
In another song you also say "There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in". It is not a very happy thought to believe that something will always have to break, to open a crack, in order to the light gets in...
"It is a happy thought if we enjoy the truth. There is always something that will have to break. Usually it is our personal pride. A buddhist thinker said that disappointment is a great way to illumination. Other masters said: 'from the broken debris of my heart I will erect an altar to the lord'.
The idea that there is a staircase of gold and marble, which leads to knowledge is seductive, but seems to me that the idea of something needing to get broken before we can learn anything is a more true idea. It is my experience, maybe you can escape it, but I doubt it. Unless the heart breaks, we will never know anything about love. As long as our objective universe doesn't collapse, we'll never know anything about the world."
/ Kristina
