Another Choice

astounding light, the wild dancing grass, the sunbeams amongst the standing trees, the myriads of creatures: this love, this adoration, of the material Supreme unveiling in an eternal becoming.

And us, transitory species all burdened up and gnawed at by our wants and wills, we could destroy all this, prevent this joy?

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To be able, provided with material bodies, to experience the body of the universe, the body of the Supreme, Its creative infinity in matter – this most concrete and immediate experience of Its sovereign Presence.

In a material body to experience Its transcendent Force.

In an individual material body to experience Its burning Love at the centre of the self, at the centre of all.

Its Weight of Flame.

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To be able, with a material body, to glimpse and pass and encounter other unique truths of the Lord, other incomparable experiences of the Lord’s infinite becoming and unfolding and, by the contact and the meeting within, to evolve and grow and walk forward and progress.

The path of a sharing ever to be discovered and incarnated – for this, yes, for this Earth offers us its soul and its body and for this we revere and thank and adore it.

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But this world, it jars and aches and hurts – and it shrinks and tightens round each of us, faster and faster.

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