Spiritual energy
Breath is son of the difference. It 'functions' like any energy reality between an hot source and a cold well. Its dynamics is function of this potential difference. The larger it is, the more the breath is powerful.
How can this potential difference between hot source and cold well be concretely translated in the human existence? The cold well of our breath undermines permanently our spiritual energies. It is present in thousand ways: lassitude, ageing, doubt, lapse of memory, routine, and a lot more, without forgetting the capital sins. These ones convert into cash the sin of the world in every individual or collective humanity: pride, desire, anger, avarice, lust, intemperance, idleness. Spiritual entropy in the middle of the human reality.
Facing the cold well, overhanging it to some extent, there is the hot source of our spiritual energies. Its expressions are also infinite: faith, certainty, clearness, hope, peace, joy. love, generosity, inspiration, conversion, enthusiasm… Where can this hot source ultimately come from? Can it come from elsewhere than from God? You can certainly live being unaware of your hot source. But the hot source does not ignore you.
There does not exist any great culture constituted without a powerful hot source of absolute sense: God, Being, Cosmos, Values, Nature, Order… as well with good charged semantic accumulators like tradition, religion, education, common wisdom, monuments of art, spiritual creations… Until its decline a cultural system functions thanks to its opening on the ecosystem of total sense. So it can live and survive victoriously defying the entropic fate of the degradation of sense.
A system can can be alive and function only while being open on exchanges. It needs doors and windows, i.e. entries and exits. The large entries and the great exits, those which 'connect' a system on its vital flows of energy, of matter and of information, can be called for this system 'hot source' and `cold well'. You can only get systemic dynamics if you get, between hot source and cold well, a strong potential difference.
Deadly indifference! Spiritual energy is only possible between an hot source and a cold well. Its dynamics are function of its potential difference. The larger it is, the more powerful the energy and the vitality.
Why can sense die? The answer is obvious. The sense dies when energy is degraded by lack of potential difference. Very concretely this means: spiritual energy is promised to death every time challenges are not taken up any more.
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