"There's something else i would like to say, to finish
with the subject once and for all. It's about our
everyday problems, principally the problem of getting
along with one another, which seems to be the main
problem. What i say is, if we are going to meet one
another with a view or an awareness of our diversity
and divergences we will never acquire enough knowledge
to deal with one another smoothly and effectively. To
get anywhere with another individual one has to cut
through to the rock-bottom man, to that common human
substratum which exists in all of us. This is not a
difficult procedure and certainly doesn't demand of
one that he be a psychologist or mind reader. One
doesn't have to know a thing about astrological types,
the complexity of their reactions to this or that.
There is one simple, direct way to deal with all
types, and that is truthfully and honestly. We spend
our lives trying to avoid the injuries and
humiliations which our neighbors may inflict upon us.
A waste of time. If we abandoned fear and prejudice,
we could meet the murderer as easily as the saint. I
get fed up with astrological parlance when i observe
people studying their charts to find a way out of
illness, poverty, vice or whatever it may be. To me it
seems like a sorry attempt to exploit the stars. We
talk about fate as if it were something visited upon
us; we forget that we create our fate every day we
live. And by fate i mean the woes that beset us, which
are merely the effects of causes which are not nearly
mysterious as we pretend. Most of the ills we suffer
from are directly traceable to our own behaviour. Man
is not suffering from the ravages wrought by
earthquakes and volcanoes, by tornadoes and tidal
waves; he is suffering from from his own misdeeds, his
own foolishness, his own ignorance and disregard of
natural laws. Man can eliminate war, can eliminate
disease, can eliminate old age and probably death too.
He need not live in poverty, vice, ignorance, in
rivalry and competition. All these conditions are
within his province, within his power, to alter. But
he can never alter them as long as he is concerned
solely with his own individual fate. Imagine a
physician refusing his services because of danger of
infection or contamination! We are all members of the
one body, as the Bible says. And we are all at war
with one another. Our own physical body possesses a
wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. we give it
orders which make no sense. There is no mystery about
disease, nor crime, nor war, nor the thousand and one
things which plague us. Live simply and wisely.
Forget, forgive, renounce, abdicate. Do i need to
study my horoscope to understand the wisdom of such
simple behaviour? Do I have to live with yesterday in
order to enjoy tomorrow? Can i not scrap the past
instantly, begin at once to live the good life - if i
really mean to? *Peace and Joy*.....I say it's ours
for the asking. Day by day, that's good enough for me.
Not even that, in fact. Just today! *Le Bel aujourd'
hui!* Wasn't that the title of one of Cendrars' books?
Give me a better one if you can...."
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