Another Choice

Some of the movements of our vital and mental nature empty out of all meaning and fall off like dried up pods, while some others sense a new direction and the energy to give themselves to it, and we then experience a liberation.

Still identified with the ego, yet we understand the necessity and the puissant truth of a nature unified around its conscious centre.

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It is not a matter of improving, of ameliorating our nature, of a perfecting of our means of action and expression, of a refinement and enrichment of our personality, or of an increase of our faculties and capacities: to obtain those a good education ought to suffice.

It is a matter of leaving the picket post of the ego which pulls everything back to its own importance.

It is a matter of uniting with the veritable centre, to unify through its radiance, to rally integrally to its truth.

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Why the misery and conflict in the human world?

Why the suffering, the hatred, the possession, the impuissance, why the absence, the avidity, why to lie, why to deceive?

Why the race for the gain, the insatiable exploitation, why the pillage and the sac, why to waste, why to spoil and damage, why the treachery?

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If this earth is indeed a school, it is also a battle path.

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