Sunlit

"Once one's said it, that one must act, one must ask oneself, shall I act within the cultural order I do not believe in but with which I am engaged by times of love or anyway ties of of fellow-feeling, or shall I act within the cosmic order I do believe in, at least in principle, an order indifferent to man? And then again, shall I act by standing indecisive between the two orders -- not striking out for the cosmic order because of my human commitment, not striking out for the cultural order because of my divine commitment? Which shall I renounce, my body -- of which ethical intellect is a function -- or my soul?"