Questions and Meditations

Napoleon. The head honcho on the block. The baker. The comedian. Stalin.

Where do we find the image that determines us most, or by whom is it presented to us? Does it come to us from the ancestor, a parent, the street, an historical figure, advertisements, a boss, a hero, a teacher – or a sage in our aspiration for self-finding?

Which force does then incite and encourage us to make of it the invisible core magnet of our existence and the object of our allegiance?

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This need of a model according to which one measures and assesses – in the positive or in the negative – the condition in which one seems to be, is common to every human being. It remains paramount until the moment when one concretely understands that one simply does not exist, that nothing actually exists, without That, or outside of That.

And thereafter one says only = “What thou willest, what thou willest… Let it be Thy will only…”

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