Another Choice

However apparently tardy our conscious progress or heavy the instruments, a definitive change has taken place, a new birth has occurred.

We are no longer only this particular separate entity amidst a multitude of other separate entities, associated for a problematic survival in a tridimensional milieu: we are also, and chiefly, an individuality in progress aware of its direct and unconditional belonging to What Is. We have become aware of it, or regained our awareness of It, we are born, or reborn in It – and from now onwards this very sense of belonging will be our anchor, our permanence and our true home, come what may.

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We now know what an egoless existence is – or, rather, we now know that the ego is not indispensable to the existence of an individual consciousness.

Moreover, we sense and divine that the ego has actually become the obstacle to the advent of another condition, unitary, of the individualized consciousness.

And we already experience this new need to be freed from the hardness of the “I, me”, of the terrible absurdity of the “me here, you there”.

We have embarked on the vessel of Unity and become aware of the true meaning of existence.

The universe no longer is this immense indifferent enigma, this cold infinity ignoring us: the universe is inhabited, the universe is a manifestation of consciousness.

There is, in fact, nothing else but That.

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Yet, the ego is still there, and it may even be so that there occurs a recrudescence of its resistances – since all its positions, its claims and demands and its tricks and ruses are presently exposed to a conscious gaze, whose discerning exigency may seem rather ruthless.

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