Another Choice

Whether through affection, stability, continuity, comfort, stimulation, return of care and attention, companionship, moral or material support, we all seek to warrant an amount of satisfaction which will be sufficient and will be well enough distributed so as to remedy to physical solitude and to help us face as bravely as we can this fatal journey from birth to death – death which our body will meet alone.

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And the energy that does reach us is not always neutral.

Its influence may either be beneficent or maleficent depending on the domain from which one has solicited it.

Human, we have become capable of manifesting the most obscure and contrary perversions - such as the capacity to inflict pain deliberately, to knowingly exploit another being’s weakness, to exert torture and abuses -, as we are also able to bring into the world sublime beauties and vast generosities and the harmonies and illuminations of the highest spheres.

And all of this is energy.

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And all of this, either potentially or effectively, death annihilates abruptly – as far as we are individually concerned.

Perhaps, while alive, we may happen to be prodigies or genii, or monsters.

The marks we leave when death reduces us to dust remain active within the shared human space and, in this, do we obtain for a part of what we were an indefinite duration.

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