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I don’t exist...

I realized, sailing up the time, what you could do without your body. Nevertheless, I don’t want to say that the spirit can live in a vacuum, standing on ideas fantasies, without any toil of everyday living. It might look good, but it isn’t feasible.

I can do without my body’s needs...

The endless passing of time could suggest that body’s needs tend to run out with age, but it isn’t. Until the last moment of our existence, we strive to satisfy even the smallest desire appeared in our mind trails (htor), not to say in our entrails (htron). There must be some kind of connection between these two body parts. Whenever our ego requires attention and concentration, for an act of will (thumòs) dictated by thought (fren) to mind (noos), is necessary an act of inner purification, which involves every part of our body. Thereby, frenes can contain emotions, the kradie can give them its rhythm and the thumòs can give the required energy to flow freely, without leaving anything to chance. Even the waste disposal from our body seems a precondition to idea formation in our mind. Over and over, I consider how the body’s needs should be combined with soul, before I joined a banquet to which I was invited, so that the needs didn’t confuse soul in its flourishing.

I can distract my personal need to give myself to other’s fulfilment...

… for other I mean who is beside me in silence, or who is going to confront myself with dialogue, or even a community of people looking for a way to coexist without stepping on anybody's toes. Such research can only rely on a solid base, stronger than the base of a column, the truth.

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