Benjamin Teixeira
by the Spirit Eugênia.
Irony: for the mature and cynical mind.
Paradox: for the lucid and educated spirit.
Contradiction: for the stubborn and lazy intelligence.
Confusion: for the dull and poor intellect.
Ambivalence: for the experienced soul that sees beyond the appearances – the essence of things.
What do you perceive, dear friend? How do you feel the world?
Around you, the complexity may sound as an invitation to work and to reflection, to creativity and to insight. Or, on the contrary, it may lead you to desperation and fear, anguish and boredom.
Before the flurry of questions that surround your steps, asking for answers, avoid, with all your strength, the escape through addiction, through unbridled consumerism, alienating fanaticism, and through the shameful simplifications of the scientific field. Face the extent and deepness of your problems, seek for authoritative help, meditate, reflect, pray and wait…
How do you react to the world? Thus you are.
How do you build your reactions? Thus you will set your future.
(Text received on September 20, 2007.)