Another Choice

How many unleashings, tidal surges, engulfings, upheavals, floods and quakes and eruptions and decimations of bodies, organisms, of myriads of living animate things – animal bodies, human bodies, bodies terrestrial and living?

Is not everything written in every single point?

And how does the cellular consciousness communicate?

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And thus do we discover that “human unity” is actually an infinitely vaster, more complex and concrete adventure than the mere moral enterprise which is generally meant by the term, an adventure necessitating a considerable work of awareness. Nonetheless the urgency is there, very concrete: we must all, with no further delaying, postponing, dithering or procrastinating, commit our actions to this path of unity of all beings, beginning with goodwill towards all and respect for all that is.

Not a mere courtesy, not an educated formality, but a felt respect, an offered respect, a respect that prays.

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