Being yourself never fades into habit. Identity is a search and an affirmation, a enantiodromos , like a state of siege that fears no enemy. Who am I? Where am I going? Constantly agree to question oneself and explore the mystery of life, but caparisoned by what one knows about oneself and exposed to the negotiation of oneself in the world, that is to say, if it there are some certainties, they free themselves from doubts... But what there cannot be is nothing.
Author: Emmanuel L. Di Rossetti
The Revolutionary and Forgiveness
The revolutionary has no appetite for forgiveness, because he hates the gift which seems suspicious to him and the other with which he could have sealed the future.
For the revolutionary, moved by envy, the only form of forgiveness that is specific to him passes through the humiliation or the death of his opponent in order to celebrate his deserved victory over a rich person.
Tradition serves to remember
Tradition requires permanent conversion. Tradition is no picnic! Tradition requires constant effort. And even the most important effort: not to forget. Tradition is about not forgetting and requires a repeated effort to remember. It cannot exist otherwise than by this back and forth movement between the meaning it gives and the understanding of this meaning through its actuality.
The will alone or the will alone
Antigone knows that man should not believe in his will alone. There too it is a question of power which swells with its pride. The will alone is perverted, it is corrupted, withered and proud. The will alone, or the will alone which often accompanies it, invests space as soon as a superior power, authority, is forgotten. All those who act in politics without referring to a superior force are mistaken. It is a lesson from Antigone, one of the laws forgotten by Creon that she restores and recalls.
Now is not the time for governments to last
The future Pius IX, still a cardinal, responding to the Emperor Napoleon III, said this: "Sire, when great politicians like your Majesty object to me that the time has not come, I have only to bow because I am not a big politician. But I am a bishop, and as a bishop I answer them: hasn't the time come for Jesus Christ to reign? Well ! So now is not the time for governments to last. »
Marie Lataste in 1843
Jesus Christ said to Marie Lataste during the vision she had in 1843: “the first king, the first sovereign of France, is me! I am the master of all peoples, of all nations, of all empires, of all dominations. I am particularly the master of France”.
Claude Bruaire
Pain designates the "negative" sensation in the aggression that affects being by the body. The word is used for localized aggression, in variable liveliness, reserving "suffering" to the test of all the being, reached in its depth, in its personal being.
An ethics for medicine. From medical liability to moral obligation . Editions Fayard.
Poetry by Philippe MacLeod
There is no greater vertigo than your exposed face (…). It is there, at the edge of this barely half-opened abyss, that we discover how close the flesh is to the soul.
Advance in deep life , Ad Solem Editions.
Our secret, a mystery
We have our secret, which we first make a mystery to ourselves.
Marcel Jouhandeau, in Elements for an Ethics . Editions Grasset.
Diversity (continued)
… Sounge i felibre esteba… I'm thinking of the Félibres… It's characteristic of the good artisans of the Divers, to turn it over like this end for end. Would it ever be achieved? It is ruin, death. It is always reborn: suddenly behind, when in front you hold out your arms to it.
However, there, Boissière writes: The Buddha, Cemetery of Annam, etc.
In 96, a year before his death, admirable verses of reverse exoticism:
Today, tired of waiting for the kiss of the Sirens — My weary Flesh returns to the native village — where the echo of the world still fascinates me...
Over there, wandering, smoke twists: They are old desires , old sins that burn….
Victor Segalen, Essay on Exoticism, An Aesthetics of Diversity , Editions Fata Morgana.