Questions and Meditations

We say – according to these experiences we qualify as “spiritual”- that veritable love is unconditional. But love is the supreme condition, love is supremely intolerant, since nothing exists as much as love does.

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However mankind has rather learnt to dominate, tame, enslave and domesticate those species it deemed inferior but from which it could draw some advantage. In so doing, it is yet possible for the shepherd and the sheep to learn from and mutually appreciate one another. Isn’t the instinct of mastery inherent to mankind, by which it forever seeks to dominate its environment, the expression of an intention of Nature in its evolutionary impetus? Yet this instinct, in order to accomplish its goal and fulfill its function, must unite to its superior foundation, that of a wisdom effectively able to guide and to govern, truly serving the manifestation.

The human being acquires its dignity only by self-knowledge and self- mastery. Only then can it watch over the general good.

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One who does not have self-mastery is but a shadow of oneself. One then is dominated, led like a slave by one’s own impulses, wants and desires, by the others, by the image they reflect.

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It is the gravity of the guts. It is the condition of the herd.

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