Another Choice

Consciousness/Existence/Joy

Existence, consciousness and joy are undividable.

Without joy there can be neither existence nor consciousness.

Without consciousness there can be no existence.

Without conscious existence there can be no joy.

It is the One Trinity.

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We can verify it.

Which are those instants when we have been “happy”?

We may well recover their traces, they are, alas, rare enough to be quite remarkable, for our personal memory to have treasured and enshrined them.

These are instants devoid of any tension, positively abandoned, gratuitous instants, vibrant with the most fulfilling of all emotions, identified with time and space, in an entire availability, a direct and shared experiencing.

Instants of happiness and delight.

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In the West particularly a culture has developed of the pursuit of happiness as a legitimate objective of human existence.

Through sheer excess and mercantile manipulations, this principle of quest has become largely perverted into some insatiable avidity for coveted goods, assets and standing rather than a search for a material and psychological equilibrium engendering harmony.

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