polilogues

Gerard Bodifée 0401

Question: Do you think there is a practical path to this Full Existence?
 
Bodifée: The practical path is the path of daily effort towards Truth, Goodness and Beauty. And in doing this we should not try to be too ambitious. We actually know very well how to get there, even though we have absolutely no conception of the final destination.

In daily life we should follow the practical rules taught by all the religions: love your neighbour, be sensitive towards the suffering in the world and try to alleviate it, create beauty. We  are always trying to show the divine through beautiful images and insights. And we should not lie. We should face and acknowledge the truth. When we do this - and all of us try to do this in our daily lives - then we are walking along that path towards a fuller reality, whether we call ourselves religious or not.

Of course there is also always the frustration that although we are doing this - what we should all do - we will never get to the end. There will always come a time, somewhere before the end of the road, that I as this insignificant individual will have to give up. The time will come when I will die, without ever becoming that perfection that I strived for. And this realisation forces us to be humble. Seemingly it will not be this "small I" who will become God and reach the Omega point. And yet, it is this "small I" who is required to step forward.