Another Choice

The choice of guide

Right here and now, what is the actual degree of our liberation?

To what extent have we stopped believing in death, being covered by its hood?

To what point have we pierced its illusion – this web it draws all around and about us and before us and even within us?

The condition we now aspire to establish in our physical experience of the world could be defined as: to be at each instant ready to leave this world and, at the same time, to be willing to work in it indefinitely.

“What Thou willest!”

“Let Thy Will be done!”

At each moment.

The path She has opened and drawn.

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Wherever we are is where we must tear through the web of death.

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We realize at present that, in our ordinary physical consciousness, each and all of us are subjected to several determinisms, by turn and at time simultaneously.

Our corporeal consciousness itself is aware of it, for suffering under immediate and almost constant effects of these overriding agents on its equilibrium and its functioning.

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