It's a question essential for all to be aware, and in particular aware of its finiteness. What is the meaning of this humanity, of this universe which made it happen to end of a prodigious process of fourteen billion years ? That would be agnostic, atheist or believer, it is the question that one day or another we do not don't delay in asking .
The story of civilizations is first of all the story of the attempts to answer that they bring to this ultimate question. Most, because it is an essential issue, even vital, men have instrumentalized the fundamental question of meaning give life by designing more or less closed explanatory systems which have had consequences that are sometimes pacifying but paradoxically sometimes even more murderous than those of freedom, of equality and fraternity .
Because the question of “senses”, instead of being a privileged space for questioning and growth in knowledge and wisdom for mankind, often became the dogmatic answers vector. Instead of being respectful of the quest from others, human pressure groups inhabited by the will to power, greed, the fear of emptiness and the search for power seek to dominate it or exclude it, which then triggers the war of “senses”. And whether it revolves around transcendent religions or secular. The same murderous logics are at work for the condemned Moscow trials in the name of history, for the victims of the genocides provoked by totalitarian political regimes, for the convicts of the Inquisition Catholic (Torquemada) and protestant (Calvin), of Jewish fundamentalism or islamic sharia .
In all these cases, what has been and still is today too often at work is the contempt of otherness, also the first law of otherness in the field of “senses” to give life, in his life and that of others, It's the one offreedom of conscience, very fragile concept but besides the vigilance and the stubbornness that it implies is also borrowed self-esteem, of respect for others, search for authenticity, of love clean well felt, of simplicity, of humility, fullness and knowing how to live .
It's a time to to come, full of fury and light, where the sheaves of the future will be untied in the fields of hope. May then the men and women of good will get up to extend the long walk to be, overhanging the Mystery, the continuators of the living work of the great transhipment, great work of life, short on our personal scale, but so long in view of the unfolding of the future, and so operative by the traces that we owe ourselves to enter in the big book of memoirs that our descendants will consult .
that the mind, heart and reason assist us in this question of “senses” because there is greater than us in this expanding universe. We can look as good as skinny wisp of straw toy of the elements, tiny hollogram cell of this vast world in which we are part, in responsibility and in presence to what is .
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