She then added, “But if I hadn’t found you, I don’t know if I would ever be able to imagine how great a thing love ultimately is.” She also said that she wants to have my child, a child that would inherit my heart and my way of thinking and perceiving the world around us.
What else could I ever ask for?
Before I met her, such a creature with so many talents in soul and spirit and so much emotional wealth, existed only in my imagination. I remember thinking that the mere acknowledgement of the existence of such a person somewhere in the world would more than satisfy me. I didn’t dare to imagine anything more… That is her mere existence is the greatest moral and emotional rewards I’ve ever received. And this realisation is enough to make me happy; my life seems like torment no longer…
2 to 3-XII(Very late at night)
How many times has there not been talk about pain being the dominant essence of life and of the world? I believed it for a long time myself and I experienced it more deeply than anyone, and now that I’ve recovered and can see life clearly and live it more profoundly, I can’t recognise my new self!
Don’t rush to argue thoughtlessly that the true essence of life is only pure and tangible in adolescence and that after that the psyche inevitably begins to become distorted in a way that it makes the old joy impossible to be found again, no matter how successfully you match your surroundings to the circumstances in your life. I have spent endless hours squirming in my armchair at night to no avail, every inch of my body awash with joy and anticipation for a million wonderful things to come, a joy and anticipation that persistently keep my eyes open and prevent every possible attempt for concentration and meditation.
“O fate! The greatest of all people’s dreams are nothing compared to what
I also remember something else that Stefan had told me a while ago, in reference to the realities that are beyond human comprehension.
“There is no way that our minds could understand what happens to us after the so-called “death”. It’s one of the facets of the
The Aidersian tradition is, as I found out, cautious and does not go beyond the
“In you era,” Stefan told me, “you dreamt about and longed for eternity, even though a rainy afternoon was enough to make most of you feel bored and lonely.” Once again I noticed their condescending tone when talking about the era of “unilateral techno-culture and mechanistic life” in which people lived, the era of which I will be a part again if I ever return…
Explaining it as best as I can, this is how they perceive the emotional attraction of the human spirit to the “infinite” and the “eternal”: as a matter of “space” or “duration” although it is something incomparably higher than that.
I remembered Anna now… How much you went through! Can you hear me? Are you listening right now? All that we had imagined and dreamt of, my dear Anna, all that made our eyes water, they exist! They’re all real! It wasn’t our imagination! They all exist here, in real life!
CITY LIFE IN WESTERN FRANCE: COMPARISON WITH THE 20TH CENTURY
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