Another Choice

It determines and directly influences the least of our choices, conditions our reflexes and our acts and dictates all of our behaviors.

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In vain have we through the ages attempted to discern, to identify, to perceive and to feel a certainty which may, if not undo, at least match that of death.

We obtain only secondary certainties which are more or less useful to our physical experiential existence in terms of apprehension and comprehension of the material universe, of enjoyment and harmony or of knowledge of the different domains of the being.

But even our approach of these is itself informed, underpinned and motivated by the absolute certainty that we shall die.

No area of our human experience is free from the dictatorship and the autocracy of this certainty.

None of our knowings, none of our powers – innate or acquired – can attenuate, diminish, repel or mitigate the impact of death and of its absolute.

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