Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00016)

Leonard Cohen says that only when the heart is broken or worn down 
from living in the known will it seek to find meaning, order in the 
disharmony and in the uncomfortableness it feels in the world. All 
of its belief systems have been broken down or shown to be 
hypocritical and false.

It is their discomfort, their suffering, that drives them to seek 
new paths to truth. They seek for something to give meaning to 
their life.

That we should never judge other paths, as those paths, in whatever 
form give sustenance to that searching soul. That the path of 
hedonism is taken by those souls who are most courageous and brave 
as they will go where many will not and will risk eventual 
annihilation. Many of these souls,through understanding the depths 
of selfishness that man is capable of, clearly understand that 
selfishness cannot lead to anything except greater selfishness and 
isolation in the long term and will eventually find salvation. Some 
do not and there fate is sealed. 

Cass: When such a soul finds a new truth, a new way of looking 
at "being" feels truly elated, and then discovers that the new truth 
they have embraced, is built on sand, could this notlead to the path 
of hedonism? When a soul finally finds some truth that resounds 
with them in some teaching, and then discovers that their truth came 
from a dubious source that soul is tempted to throw out the good 
with the bad. Many souls may throw up their arms in despair and 
say "what's the point?" they have all got it wrong. To remain true 
to a teaching that has dubious teachers,(misinterpreters of the 
truth) requires of a soul great perseverence and trust in the 
original teachings and great honesty on the part of those that are 
preserving the doctrine as "the truth". 

Cass