Another Choice

who are ready to devote themselves to the quest would also become able to share in the realizations of higher states of consciousness, freed from the material and physical world.

Between the two, our religions have settled.

Profiting from both in order to establish their hold on individuals as on groups by promising and guaranteeing access to better worlds and compensating, with their scheduling of everyone’s life, for the essential lack and absence.

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Neither the moral person or the spiritual one, nor the religious institution could change the quality of mortal human existence, let alone even wish to change its condition – but only either attempt to correct it or find some way out of it.

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Amongst us all, always there are some “blessed souls”: these men, these women, these children, neither erudite nor talented or extraordinary gifted, who yet give the world more than any others through their mere presence, so much do they love life and enjoy it and so much do they revere the very possibility of infinite human experience upon this earth.

It is often the case that those beings “go back” or leave sooner than others and it is then that one measures their irreplaceable contribution.

It is because, without the joy of being, we exist not.

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