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Our humanity, in its average totality, will have served no truth other than that of its haunting fears, wants and desires; from the atomic bomb to the plastic bags, it will have spread and sowed its toxic wastes and polluted all five elements – to the altar of its exclusivisms and its vile cravenness. Yet is not this same humanity the bearer of such promises and such wealth of existence: this indeed was Her cry, ‘love, listen, hear the unity of the world and thus find the True that awaits…”

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The union of two truths implies that both are changed by it: neither one keeps the same identity. It is not a more or less viable association of two approaches accepting to tolerate one another, but a mutual and reciprocal discovery and integration. Today we have only been capable of forming ties of an often uneasy cooperation, which are constantly at risk of hindering each progress and only produce hybrid courses without any creative power – or else, frozen representations of truths whose wings are bound.

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Often, but not always, the complexity of the human experience does teach us to become less trenchant, less quick to judge, or else it is the erosion of weariness that draws us apart from any positioning. The questions that today animate our thoughts, our debates and our conflicts, were already there in Her presence, at the beginnings of the

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