“They say that only exiles flee to the desert, and always to . escape enslavement and in search of a promised land. There is no desert without exodus, that may be true, but my desert time is not to prepare me for a later promised land, as in the case of the Jewish people. No, my desert is already in and of itself the promised land; and that is what makes me look at it with very different eyes than those who look at it and experience it as a means to achieve some other end. Like the people of Israel, I also have the impression that one comes to the desert to be reborn. So, I don’t discount that humanity has its origins in these lands, and it’s even possible that, as we were told us children, man was truly made from water and clay.”
Pablo d’Ors, excerpt from The Friend of the Desert
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