And so,

for the first time

in my life perhaps, i took

the lamp, and i went down to my

inmost self. But as i moved further and

further from the conventional certainties, i became

aware that i was losing contact with myself. At each step of the

descent a new person was disclosed within me. And when i had to stop

my exploration because the path faded, i found a bottomless abyss at my feet, 

and out of it came - arising i know not whence - the current which i dare to call my

Life.

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TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

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