Oh useless and wicked prophecy that proclaims the end of the world...

...I affirm that the human being shall not only continue to live but shall grow without limit.

“Do not let a day go by...

...without giving an answer to yourself about where you are going.”

There is no passion, idea, or human deed that is not linked to the abyss...

...therefore, let us turn to the only thing that deserves our attention: the abyss and that which overcomes it.

.....before fire could be considered a “gift” it was recognised as threatening and dangerous...

...and there is the first difference between hominids and other animals. The fire is there already. And hominids — what kind of creatures are these that dare go towards that dangerous thing and not run away like all other animals? All of them flee before the fire but hominids move closer.

destiny has once again begun to speak...

...the destiny that has moved entire peoples along their best evolutionary path, the destiny that has been so many times distorted and so many times forgotten, but is always re-encountered in the twists and turns of history. Today we can glimpse not only a new sensibility and a new mode of action but also a new moral attitude and a new tactical approach to facing life.

...perhaps we should ask ourselves...

...how it is possible for the immortal to generate the illusion of mortality.

When they spoke of the city of the gods...

...which the heroes of many peoples strove to reach; when they spoke of a paradise where gods and humankind lived together in transfigured original nature; when they spoke of falls and floods, great internal truth was told. But when all this was spoken of but set outside the mind it was and error or a lie.

“The pain and suffering that human beings experience recedes when good knowledge advances...

...not knowledge at the service of selfishness and oppression.
Good knowledge leads to justice.
Good knowledge leads to reconciliation.
Good knowledge also leads us to decipher the sacred in the depth of our consciousness.”


from “Ceremony of Recognition,” Silo’s Message
Photograph by RAFAEL EDWARDS

“The heroes of this age fly through regions previously unknown towards the stars...

... The heroes of this age fly outward from their world and, without knowing it, they are impelled towards the internal and luminious centre.

...and he saw the light of the sun.

Then he mounted his horse and said to himself, "Contradiction inverts life and generates suffering... ... The sun hides itself so that the day becomes night, but the day will be according to what I do with it."

Do not let your life pass by without asking yourself...

..."where am I going?"

Contradictory or unifying actions accumulate within you...

...if you repeat your acts of internal unity, nothing can detain you.

... ...we should consecrate this movable day so that in the future it will be remembered as the “Day of Testimony”.

... we take the opportunity to send our warmest greetings to our very dear friends who, in different latitudes, in halls, neighbourhood halls and meeting places are commemorating once again the anniversary of what took place back on May 4th, 1969...



... ...we should consecrate this movable day so that in the future it will be remembered as the “Day of Testimony”.

A testimony that gives priority to this human attitude and that justifies it in itself and places it above all ideologies, all theories and all practical calculations. This point of view, according to which what comes first is the expression of human life with its certainties, its doubts, its attempts, its rebellions, raises up those who have their feet on the earth and their head in the heavens.

When you treat others as you want them to treat you...

...you liberate yourself.

Gazing at this flower, you and I may agree on many things...

...but if you go on to say that this flower will bring you utmost happiness, it may become more difficult for me to comprehend, for you are speaking no longer of the flower but instead of what you believe it will do within you.

When you harm others you remain enchained...

...but if you do not harm anyone you can freely do whatever you want.

You will make your conflicts disappear when you understand them in their ultimate root...

...not when you want to resolve them.

If you pursue an end, you enchain yourself...

...if everything you do is realized as though it were an end in itself, you liberate yourself.

If you pursue pleasure, you enchain yourself to suffering...

...but as long as you do not harm your health, enjoy without inhibition when the opportunity presents itself.

Do not oppose a great force...

...retreat until it weakens, then advance with resolution.

If day and night, summer and winter are well with you...

...you have surpassed the contradictions.

Do not oppose a great force...

...retreat until it weakens, then advance with resolution.

It does not matter in which faction events have placed you ...

... what matters is that you comprehend that you have not chosen any faction.

Meaning in life is a direction toward the future that gives coherence to life...

... that provides a framework for all of one's activities, that justifies one's life fully. In the light of meaning, suffering in general and even pain in its mental component retreat and grow smaller as one comes to understand them as experiences that can be surpassed.

In each of us is the unfathomable source of the Profound...

from whose waters we must drink.

Things are well when...

...they move together, not in isolation.

And so, I declare before all of you my faith and my certainty of experience that death does not stop the future...

...that death on the contrary modifies the provisional state of our existence to launch it toward immortal transcendence. And I do not impose my certainty or my faith upon anyone, and I live in harmony with those who find themselves in different states with respect to meaning in life.



But I am obliged in solidarity to offer this message—a message that I recognize makes the human being happy and free. For no reason will I evade my responsibility to express my truths, though they may seem doubtful to those who experience the provisional nature of life and the absurdity of death.

And if life is but a mirror that reflects a landscape... ...

...how will it ever change that which it reflects?