Another Choice

The evolutionary forces of Nature are impartial.

Any given situation can evolve for the worst or for the best, according to the concerned agents.

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When the individual human consciousness feels the need to evolve, that is, to accede to another threshold of perception and of becoming, the involved questioning must be intense and oriented enough so as to cross the limits of the known.

Through time we have thus been able to observe the crossed thresholds and to bear witness.

It is most often, although not always, in a context of extreme necessities that evolutionary advances have occurred.

When, human beings in our growing multitude, we enter a movement and an effort of introspection, seeking to understand and to know what moves and motivates us and what we exist for and the cause of our sufferings and helplessness and the origin of our gifts, we do join the evolutionary force. Rather than of the mere progress of the instruments, we are in search of a progress of consciousness – of a surer discernment and capacity of choice, of a wider range of perception, of a more direct knowledge of beings, of things and of the universe.

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