Daily Meditation: Wednesday, July 24, 2002

Everywhere you go you meet people who have replaced the …

07/24/2002

Everywhere you go you meet people who have replaced the light with fanciful ideologies in which they end up losing themselves. Thirty people, fifty philosophies. The world is increasingly becoming a hospital where every patient has their own reasons for complaining about something. Even if it is simply the air, the light, the heat, the food, what is right for one person is not right for another and vice versa. Take a family, for instance: everyone does their best to assert their own individuality. It is quite normal to be different, but why persist in defending your differences if they are weaknesses or vices? Even in illness (symbolically) people feel the need to differentiate themselves: one with typhus, the other with cholera, another with the flu, and so on. And the number of fevers! The whole family has a fever, but they all have a different type, everyone has their own, quite different from the others. It is good to be original, but at least then make sure it is your efforts to elevate yourself to beauty and light that make you original.