Questions and Meditations

23 Opening

It is possible to adore a stone. A sprig of prairie grass.

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What is the right word? Does this word exist?

One experiences at once veneration, gratitude, aspiration, adoration, prayer, the urge for self-giving, a call that rises like a flame and an intensity that is the honey of truth.

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It is worth all the philosophies and metaphysics, all the edifices and systems and all the human relationships – it is worth them all and it surpasses them all, it vibrates, it breathes and all is reconciled.

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The body participates in it. The body understands.

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Can this state endure?

To become conscious of the source.

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A Presence that contains and surpasses at once the Person, the Impersonal and the Multiplicity, that bears at once the absolute, the infinite and the immediate, that is at once the permanent origin of the universes and the inhabitant of every point…= is that possible?

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