It is that same arrow, first aimed at the wrong target, that once the right aim is understood drives us to the goal.
via: Vasco Brondi, Una cosa spirituale (Einaudi, 2025) — L'animale che mi porto dentro
Info & reflection: the same force that destroys can save: it's not about changing it but about redirecting it.
Related in anthology
- Una cosa spirituale. Non fare niente, altre forme d'arte — John Climacus in the chapter L'animale che mi porto dentro: the passions have to be redirected and sublimated so they give light instead of burning
- Addiction is proof that you're capable of intense devotion. You are just serving the wrong god. — "serving the wrong god" is Climacus's misdirected arrow: same energy, different target