Rout or passage

constituting the material reality which we together inhabit at each moment. One could well believe that this is all but an almost infinitely complex sort of mechanical set of laws which it is not our concern to render intelligible: we just need to learn to navigate its net, as we need to learn to swim or walk, to move corporeally within the material milieu.

However, as our choices acquire more importance on our individual and collective journey, it becomes possible to assess the particular character and orientation of their consequences.

And the matter of responsibility begins to weigh.

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It is relatively easy to observe a difference in quality, in significance and in influence as our choices are guided, motivated or elicited by one of the paths or by the other. For indeed the choices we make or are brought or led to make appear to generate, engender or activate a particular logic or coherence in the circumstances, over which we hold no control whatsoever, but which can teach and instruct us – and it is thus that we habitually experience the molding that “life” effectuates on our individual nature.

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