A Tale for Tomorrow

was no longer any sorrow but in its place there was something that loved without bonds and there I felt like there was a vertical axis connecting or communicating with something so limitless and so full, filled with a love that sees and knows – and ever since that moment I no longer have any fear, for I know I can at any time return to that state, whatever happens and feel the necessary movement, it is like a guide…” As for Cleïm , who is the eldest, he told them, or rather summed up for them, this accompaniment along the years through all situations: “Already when I was a kid, I used to feel in my body a force that pulled and that watched, a little as if at once a magnet and a drill or a probe, it was familiar and reassuring and it was as if my secret refuge; little by little it became like a silent mass, always present yet never involved in whatever happened in my life, as if a sort of witness above that yet suddenly would make itself felt with a pressure that was like a warning or a necessary rallying call; then, gradually as I better understood the complexity of our nature and the sources of all the conflicts and miseries, I learnt to realign under this mute charge that now presided over my being, without ever forcing itself on me; and then I understood that, there, was consciousness – consciousness and force at the same time – and that this corporeal life was actually a field of progress where one learns true life, with one‟s body, with the consciousness that is everywhere invisible, in our bodies as in everything that is; and this axis has become in my life the proof and the expression of the real, of the true reality – and one must let oneself be worked upon by its action and

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