It is difficult to understand in our time, where individualism reigns, that the act of taking responsibility for a fault that one does not think is one's own, that one thinks is attributed to the other, but which necessarily is also one's own, necessarily, because I have already committed this kind of fault by action or omission, this fault is not unknown to me, the act of taking responsibility for the fault which even if it is not one's own, could have been, taking responsibility therefore for the possibility of exposing my weakness, a moment of intense and prodigious humility, transgresses my self and forces it out of its comfort zone; this gesture provokes, without me even having to call for it or seek it, the crossing of the membrane that separates me from another within me that I do not yet know, another that surpasses my nature, perhaps another natural-being, the transfiguration that allows me to become more than myself.
Taking it upon oneself, a transfiguration
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