Questions and Meditations

Those ravaged countries, those stigmata of pettiness and hatred, haunt us all. It is now itself that such deliberate abominations are orchestrated and acted out, it is humanity such as it still is that allows it.

It is us, then.

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He is dead. Dead? His body, there, has ceased to live? He no longer has a body? He can no longer be in this body? He is without a home, expelled?

Where is he?

Me, I live! My body shelters me, my body is well alive – here is the world of life!

Could it be that this body too ceases to live, my body, me, can it happen that it too will cease? How? I am alive, I am this body, this body lives, there is no room for what is not alive, for what is bodiless.

How to conciliate?

How to live through the death, cessation, disappearance, decomposition of what one has been?

Is this abrupt, incomprehensible, ungraspable, unacceptable cessation, the reverse of a step, of a threshold to be passed in one’s consciousness?

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