Another Choice

On the way

And thus do we set to work.

We dig into our own subconscient, we examine our instincts, our vital movements, the circulation of our thoughts, the nature of our Impulses, we try to discern other altitudes, other dimensions, and other realms of possibility.

It seems then that we are but lost parcels of a nobler reality, greater and more permanent, as if the reflection of a puissant love had broken into the fragments that we are, here and now.

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We begin, each with one’s note and one’s cry, to walk in the dark: to take part in evolution in matter.

We need a little courage – to question all that constitutes the normalcy of this shared world, to let our gaze be cleansed in the intensity of the call.

And, of this new groping and risky journey, we must declare ourselves responsible – not to reproach others for their incomprehension, not to try and pull them along into what may well turn out to be another dead-end or another disappointing make-believe.

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But we must also accept, at the fall of such or such limit, at the drop of our blinkers, unexpected toppling and reversals, great clearances and revolutions of our ken – and frequent stupefaction and amazement before the undoing of all these chains.

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