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I don't regret the people I lost with time... but I regret the time tht I lost with certain people, because the people didn't belong to me, but time did.
I don't regret the people I lost with time... but I regret the time tht I lost with certain people, because the people didn't belong to me, but time did.
We mustn't be subjected to anything, not even to good. A so-called good, to which you succumb, loses the ethycal character. It doesn't become bad in itself, but by being dominated it can have some bad consequences. Every shape of intoxication is is unhealthy, it makes no difference if alcohol or morphine or idealism.
We mustn't consider good and evil as two opposites.
The initiatic experience, therefore, represents a change of visual that allowed the man to be connected with the divine. Apparently, in our current world the initiations seem disappeared, but they still exist as which weakened rituals of passage, indeed the several celebrations that are carried out for the new year, the births, the birthdays or any social type of conquest, are a pale memory of...
Suffering is caused by a spiritual stagnation, by a psychic sterility. Faith, hope, love and knowledge are what the patient needs for living. No one is really cured if they are not able to reach a religious attitude.
I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
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