>>It's really that simple: deepness begins with the desire to question. This, ostensibly, is the beginning of the terror of which Rilke spoke.

 

well, OK . . . but even if it is that simple, wouldn’t a great deal depend on the care with which the questions are defined and articulated? . . . it’s certainly easy enough to muse about “the meaning of life” but that is as likely to lead to adolescent musing as it is to profundity . . . though i recognize that what we call profundity may end up being nothing more than a particularly devious kind of adolescent musing

 

mike