Another Choice

We now feel the need for harmony and, to begin with, for the harmony of the physical consciousness and of the body – our vehicle, our home, our shrine.

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Because, separate physical creatures, we yet remember an Absolute, we never cease seeking absoluteness – in action, in art, in others, in the event of meeting.

Because we are separate, we experience our own aloneness.

Because death is awaiting us, we beg from life and the others – and from our own image –some access to this meeting, this liberation, this union.

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But what if this absolute were awaiting, invisible, right within oneself, here itself, the Same Centre of Consciousness and Existence everywhere?

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We say: “since we are born ignorant and must die ignorant still, without ever having touched deliverance or response, without having ever come into freedom, so then, let our sex serve us and ensure a continuity of existence, let our lineage be extended, let other creatures be bound to us through their cells and blood and let us thus live on, without cease or defeat…”.

After all, is it not thus that Nature outplays death?

Is it not Nature which provides us with this ability to procreate, to prolong and multiply ourselves and thus to ever perfect ourselves?

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