Another Choice

The unbearable question

There is one question that is most abrasive and scouring.

A question whose largely unknown virtues could turn out to be most unexpectedly efficacious.

It is the question of the end and the means.

Does the end justify the means?

Does any end justify all means?

Is there a scale, a barometer, a criterion, a measure?

This one question has haunted us all through the ages: it generates our most tormented interrogations and brings our most established ethics to their knees.

For, if some of its incarnations are relatively easy to evaluate, others plunge us into insurmountable dilemmas.

Is there one single answer for all and in all cases?

Or do we have to discern the right answer in each case?

And what is the reference that would allow us to judge the rightness of this answer?

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For those of us who, from instant to instant, are learning to refer to and rely on the inner axis more and more concretely and integrally, the failure of our human knowledge is no longer in doubt: we have been able to verify that our most serene intelligence is still an ignorance before the evolutionary necessities. We know that our power to help is ignorant, that our vision of the future is ignorant, that the love we can share is ignorant, that our understanding of the real needs is ignorant, that our most accomplished sciences are ignorant – for we have now realized that true knowledge must

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