Son of the difference

The force of humanization is generated through difference. It “functions” like any energy between a hot source and a cold well. Its dynamics is function of this potential difference. The larger it is, the more powerful is the energy.

How can this potential difference between hot source and cold well be translated concretely into the human existence? The cold well of our human breath does not cease to swallow up our spiritual energies. It is omnipresent and meets in a thousand ways. Call it entropy.
 
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. Lucidity. Hope. Peace. Joy. Love. Generosity. Inspiration. Conversion. Enthusiasm… Can this hot source finally be elsewhere than in God? You can certainly live being unaware of your hot source. It does not ignore you. Under penalty of death!

There does not exist a great culture which was constituted without a powerful hot source of absolute meaning: God, Being, Cosmos, Values, Nature, Sense…  Also with semantic accumulators well charged like the tradition, the religion, education, common wisdom, the monuments of art and of spirit… Until its decline a cultural system functions thanks to its opening on the ecosystem of the total Sense. Thus it can be a living reality. Thus its spiritual vitality does not cease defying victoriously the entropic fate of the degradation of the Sense.

Value is not generated by identity but by difference. Coincidence is the end of desire. As long as it abounds, water remains without value. But its value grows ad infinitum if you are lost and thirsty in the desert. Only distances nourish nostalgias. An object becomes more desirable when it is missing or lost. To run after something still makes it more desirable. The conquest multiplies by greatly its value. Finally 'value' emerges from a gaping. The value occurs in the negation of the indifference. It emerges with the difference.

There is a stone lying at the edge of the way. It remains `unspecified' and unimportant until the moment when an archaeologist discovers it like an important vestige. It takes on value only once it leaves its indifference to be located in the difference. A word is really speaking to you when it leaves the hubbub and emerges in the difference. Then it takes value. Who is the demiurge of such a transmutation? The human glance, the human listening, i.e. the great `differentiating' dynamics that we can also call spirit.

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