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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:THE SUPREME RISK \nby Gustave Thibon \n◊◊◊ \nThe being who runs the least risk is that being who\, down here\, comes \nnearest to nothingness: the one who risks nothing is nothing. The risk is made to \nbe run: every being carries within itself what it takes to overcome the risks to \nwhich its nature or its vocation exposes it. The greatest risk of all concerns our \nhighest destiny… The acceptance of death is the only risk which is in any way \nproportionate to the supernatural destiny of the soul\, and anyone who is not \nready to run it is not truly Christian. Where are we to find the counterpart of \neternal life if not in the total annihilation of temporal life? One sole risk \nmeasures up to the absolute promise of God\, and that “sole risk” is to risk what \nlooks like losing everything. \nEveryone’s destiny is governed by our inward response to this question: \nwhich of the two is an illusion\, love or death? Those who are Christians bank on \nlove\, and for love they are ready to risk death. They belong among those who\, \nbelieving in love\, can no longer believe in death. The Christian risk consists in \ngoing all the way in subordinating death to love. Since Calvary\, death has given \nup working for its own ends: love never gives up stealing its victory from it. The \nsupreme risk has become the supreme hope. \nEveryone exercises discretion according to the nature of their treasure\, of \ntheir heart. True discretion has two eyes: one is fixed on the goal to be obtained\, \nthe other on the risk to be run; discretion sees all the way to the end\, and for that \nreason it can take on the risk. False discretion is\, in a sense\, one-eyed. Its one \neye is fixed only on the risk\, it sees no further than the risk\, and for that reason it \nrefuses to let itself run the risk. Deprived of both the healthy outlook which sees \nthe goal and of the holy inclination which leads towards it\, it no longer has any \ndesire but at all costs to escape the risk. Those who do this are then given up \neither to stagnation or to regression; they no longer dream of anything but shell- \nback coverings or protective railings\, and life is transformed into a vast \nenterprise of “insurance against all risks”. \nThere is no greater indiscretion than this false discretion. By being over- \nanxious to preserve themselves\, such people destroy themselves. Those who\, in \norder to take better care of themselves\, confine themselves to their own lower \nelements\, work for their own ruin\, for they are acting against a central demand \nof nature and of life\, and they compromise beyond repair the inferior good that \nthey claim to save… For we are not down here to remain on a steady level\, and if \nwe refuse to climb we increase the chance of falling. For the fruitful task of life \nand love\, false discretion substitutes everywhere the sterile risk of egoism and \ndeath.
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