Another Choice

When one is brought to do a little sorting and sifting out amongst all these emotions and these urges which we maintain and nourish, in the clarity of the new priorities – of unification, receptivity and harmonization -, we perforce must observe that the majority of these movements of energy are actually corrosive.

Attachment acts in the long run as the rope acts on the neck: either one is wounded and weakens or one rebels and the tie breaks – the tearing apart.

Ambition is like the insincere guest who studies the home so as to profit from it.

The urge to cherish is actually an investment one makes so as to ward off a solitude which seems too dreadful.

What is left, then, in this human nature, that may be of worth, really respectable and truly adorable?

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It is then as if, right there behind this scene of the world, stood death, like the puppeteer and, simultaneously, in a dimension just contiguous and as if ready to dissolve all the props and settings, an immense feast awaited: but we still are hypnotized, we have always, unfailingly and perpetually, obeyed.

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