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In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. and yet you must survive. it is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a god who cares about its fate.

-Gregory David Roberts

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In The Face Of All That Is

Gregory David Roberts

In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. and yet you must survive. it is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a god who cares about its fate.

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I was born with the wrong sign in the wrong house with the wrong ascendancy i took the wrong road that led to the wrong tendencies i was in the wrong place at the wrong time for the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme on the wrong day of the wrong week used the wrong method with the wrong technique wrong wrong.

Fate is a misplaced retreat. many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. but that is not what fate is. the world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. fate is where these circles cut to earth. since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. when this happens, we call it fate. fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

It’s wrong to hate. it always has been wrong and it always will be wrong! it’s wrong in america, it’s wrong in germany, it’s wrong in russia, it’s wrong in china! it was wrong in two thousand b.c., and it’s wrong in nineteen fifty-four a.d.! it always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong!

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. all human destiny is this dilemma. this dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. love is life, if it is not death. cradle; coffin, too. the same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. of all the things god has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and i shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only i provoked it from you, i will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something i mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.

Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the god-mystery within us, puts forth. then we shall all be sound and free. lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being. the creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. these promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. a fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.

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