Andrei Tarkovsky

"In an Orthodox monastery lived a monk named Pamba. He planted a dry tree on the mountain such as this, and his novice John ordered water it every day, as long as it does not come to life. And now, every morning at dawn, John filled a bucket with water and hit the road. He climbed the mountain, and watered the dry trunk, and in the evening when it was getting dark, and returned to the monastery. It lasted for three years, but one day John went up the mountain and saw that his tree all covered with flowers.

You know, sometimes I say to myself that if every day at the same time doing the same thing - as a ritual: unwaveringly, systematically, every day, exactly at the same time - then the world will change. Something changed in him - otherwise it can not be. "(" Sacrifice »)