A Tale for Tomorrow

more universal references, these references that can help resolve conflicts and all through my childhood and my teens I could sense and feel, above my life and my body, a vast presence watching over me and I trusted it wholly; it was through art, through colours and lines and through music, that I found the urge to meet the world, its painful impasses as well as its potentials; and while I had to assimilate and process all these situations, the hatreds, rancours, deprivations, injustices , arrogances, as well as its loyalties and its acts of faith, I was also learning to consult with the Presence right above and deep within my breast, behind these dimensions that enclose us, and this was giving me courage and discernment, like a sure and safe, infallible embrace that protects my consciousness from my own ignorance and weaknesses still unchanged… this Consciousness, this Presence, sees and knows and it can lift our humanity out of the noxious mires that consume and drown it, if one will only listen to it and let it work in all of us…” (And thus, in order, have now each expressed themselves Le Rai, Blanche, Cleïm, Dia, Tocsin, Kayne, Tohar, Sémion, Zeidr, Martin, Yael, Amethyst, Le Marin, Svanil, Ruffian, Vrit, Tan, Violette, L‟Archer, Jul, Chardon, L‟Etoile, Fran, Faucon, Jen, Le Mont, Loi s, Gomat and Nat.)

When Nat‟s voice ceased, like a great breath ran through all the bodies assembled around the flame and Svanil intoned an invocation which is at once a thanking and a confirmation of a shared commitment.

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