Another Choice

All our miseries without exception result from choices which we have made, here or there, one day or another in our past.

The origin and the quality of our choices determine, in the entire fabric of humanity, physical and terrestrial, the conditions in which we now find ourselves.

For this fabric is of one piece.

There is, finally, no distance.

There is, finally, no real separation, beyond the illusion that our ego keeps projecting.

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It is the number of beings involved in a particular given choice that produces the effect of a lens: the choices of an individual, those of a group, of a corporation, of a nation, result in effects and consequences that are more or less visible and obvious from a historical standpoint.

But human unity is a fact, before being an ideal.

It is by the law of this primary and absolute unity that we suffer, that Earth suffers, from our obscure and egotistic choices.

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The nature of the choices we make will dictate not only the spreading out and succession of analogous choices, linked by a common logic, but also our ulterior conduct and behavior, whether directly or through their conjugated pressure. There is hardly a single region of our contemporary world, for instance, that is not subjected to the multiplied effects and consequences of the choices made by the first colonizers, centuries earlier, who went out as adventurers with the purpose of exploring, conquering and exploiting, of discovering and profiting and eventually left unending and bottomless rancor, poisoned cultures, corrupted societies and arbitrary borders behind them, which continue generating further violence and rivalry.

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