What if your whole life was a script?
What if your whole life was a script, a role you've been forced to play?
What if true freedom means refusing to “behave” and instead learning to adapt, question, and act in harmony with the universe?
This essay is not about rules. It's about the Path of the I, the only compass that can lead us away from darkness and toward beauty, harmony, and truth.
The Path of the I
Adaptation over Behavior
One should not merely behave.
Instead, one should adapt and always apply wisdom. Behavioral patterns are reserved for dogs and cats, creatures of instinct, not consciousness.
Human beings should be able to adapt to the present without a script or role-playing, responding authentically to each unique moment.
We call "action" the conscious way the I interacts with the world it inhabits.
The Question of Meaning
Does the I need to follow a meaningful path, preferably choosing one option over another?
Let us acknowledge we don't really know what ultimate meaning is, since it appears infinitely diverse across cultures and eras. We could argue that no predetermined meaning exists at the birth of the I. We enter the world as conscious potential, not predetermined programs.
Initially, the concept of I seems to align with the moral relativism of different eras and societies.
Consider the evidence:
Pederasty was socially accepted in ancient Greece.
Matriarchy remains the norm in certain regions.
Even something as basic as bodily modesty varies dramatically across cultures and historical periods.
This relativistic observation led many to conclude that the pattern of actions, or the logic behind them, must be evaluated purely within cultural context. There is no universal standard by which the I should or should not take specific actions.
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
But this leads to a moral dead end.
If meaning cannot transcend social norms, then good cannot emerge from what society preaches.
Societies, after all, primarily seek their own survival and perpetuation, not truth or justice.
Nazi Germany had its own internally consistent rules and social norms, but that hardly made them worth following. The same applies to our contemporary societies. They function as collective organisms, essentially wild beasts, and no individual can guide their moral compass solely by the laws or customs these systems promote.
Moral relativism is not moral at all. It is a caricature of the true path.
We must search for a more reliable foundation to guide the I's actions.
Agency and Responsibility
Every authentic action should answer the fundamental question: "Why?"
This demand for justification implies that genuine agency and free will are always involved in moral choice. We are not merely products of conditioning or circumstance.
We then evaluate each action through this lens of conscious intention, deciding whether the motivation was worthy, and whether we can call the resulting action moral or good.
This is the first step beyond relativism. The recognition that consciousness bears responsibility for its choices.
The Principle of Harmony
Here we discover the foundation we have been seeking. The moral imperative of the universe emerges from the principle of harmony, which is embedded in every aspect of existence.
Nature itself provides the template:
Generational patterns follow ideal iterations.
Fibonacci sequences govern everything from nautilus shells to galaxy spirals.
Proportions naturally tend toward the golden ratio.
Balance and harmony are not human inventions but fundamental properties embedded in every natural system.
We call beautiful and harmonious whatever produces the most refined, elegant, and life-enhancing result from any given set of possibilities.
The I should use its freedom of action to align with this cosmic principle of harmony.
Anything that leads away from this path, anything contrary to humanity's genuine flourishing or contrary to these harmonic principles, should be recognized as a wrong path.
Not because such choices corrupt the essential nature of the I, which remains incorruptible as a spark of universal consciousness, but because the I thereby distances itself from the universal light of consciousness from which the path of harmony descends.
Separated from this source, there is no harmony, and the I suffers in the darkness of destructive paths.
We call evil this path of separation from the universal harmony.
There is only one authentic path of alignment, but infinite ways to diverge from it.
The Normal and the Abnormal
We call "normal" a person who maintains balance and equilibrium in their responses to each moment's interactions.
Such a person will not react irrationally but will respond in a rational, measured, and appropriate manner to whatever circumstances arise.
We eliminate from this definition of normalcy any tendency toward aggression, unnecessary force, or deception.
To lie or deceive creates the same disruption in harmony as physical violence.
The only exception is necessary force. Acts of legitimate self-defense that any person has the right and sometimes the duty to employ.
Oppression and Collective Bullying
Most suffering in our current world model stems from systematic bullying. Policies of domination cascade from state leadership through institutional hierarchies down to the smallest bearers of delegated authority.
This includes everyone from corporate managers to petty bureaucrats, anyone who believes they are entitled to use force against others simply because some institution has temporarily empowered them.
The principle is simple: as long as a person remains peaceful and non-aggressive, no harm or force should ever be directed against them.
Using force without genuine justification is a crime that implicates the personal responsibility of every individual who participates, regardless of institutional cover.
Consider the Nazi soldiers during World War II. Yes, the system provided legal protection and social approval for their actions. Nevertheless, their deeds violated fundamental harmony, and personal responsibility remained, as became clear when that criminal system finally collapsed.
No institution can absolve the I of its moral responsibility.
The Path of Love and Beauty
The I should always act from a foundation of loving perception of reality.
This is not a rigid commandment but a natural expression of alignment with the Light.
The vibration of the sacred, that shiver of recognition we feel in the presence of absolute beauty, represents the frequency the I should attune to, because this sacred vibration is part of the I's own deepest nature.
The I is inherently good.
Anyone can develop their awareness of this universal connection.
Evil emerges from ignorance of one's true nature.
The more someone becomes imprisoned in rigid moral codes imposed from outside their direct experience, the more they lose their natural sensitivity to beauty and their capacity to act from genuine consciousness and inner peace.
Evil as Separation
It is false to claim that people do not recognize when they are acting wrongly. Our natural revulsion to ugliness and disharmony proves otherwise.
Evil develops through the gradual desensitization of the I. The progressive staining of the soul's perceptive lens.
A corrupted I becomes trapped in its own mental prison, unable to perceive beyond the walls of its conditioning. It perceives other beings as fundamentally alien and threatening, responding only with fear and ultimately with violence.
Evil propaganda and lies accomplish their work by building walls of division between human beings. Making us forget our fundamental unity.
Lucifer and the Fall
Evil represents a real force. A conscious entity that actively opposes the Light of creation.
According to the ancient understanding, Lucifer was originally a created being of light, like ourselves, but he possessed a crucial flaw: the absence of humility.
Pride, or arrogance, was the Devil's fundamental error.
His knowledge and power became so vast that he began to believe himself equal to the Creative Source, not merely a part of the infinite, but the totality itself. He sought to usurp the very throne of existence.
Lucifer, originally the bearer of divine light and the first among the created beings, declared his independence. He claimed to be "the One" in place of the true One.
This represented the primordial lie.
The Source cannot be replaced or duplicated.
By this act of cosmic rebellion, Lucifer severed himself from the Light. Having rejected his connection to the true Source, he cannot generate his own illumination.
This is why he wanders in shadows, in the hellish darkness of separation from the universal harmony.
The True Compass of the I
The I must never diverge from the principle of the Light's path.
To walk this path means to continuously seek connection with the origin of Light, whether we call it Universal Consciousness, God, the Source, or the Essence of all existence.
Lucifer's tragedy teaches us the danger. When he declared himself to be the Light rather than a bearer of Light, he lost all sense of direction.
Only the true Source can serve as the North Star of our moral compass. And this Source resides at the very bottom of our hearts.
Whenever we diverge from this path of alignment, we lose our sense of direction, and nothing we accomplish can be truly sacred or blessed.
The worst form of spiritual confusion occurs when we believe our personal judgment alone is sufficient to discern good from evil, without maintaining conscious connection to the larger pattern of universal harmony.
The Inner Law of the I
The moral imperative requires alignment with the law of the Universe, the law of Universal Harmony.
But this law is not imposed from outside.
It emerges as the I's own deepest light, the illumination that makes consciousness itself possible.
The I that follows its own authentic light is actually following the light of the Universe, because at the deepest level, these are not separate.
One should learn to access the stillness at the bottom of the heart, where the Divine Presence dwells as pure awareness, accessible whenever we cultivate genuine peace and inner silence.
From this place of connection, follow the heart's primary instinct, which can only be deep love for all existence.
This explains the paradoxical Christian teaching:
"Love, and do whatever you want!"
This means that if you establish yourself firmly on the path of authentic love, the path illuminated by the light of your deepest heart, you cannot act wrongly. You will naturally align with Universal Law.
Universal law does not impose itself through external coercion, which would violate the very freedom it seeks to guide.
Instead, it emerges from within, from the eternal wellspring of love that can flood the conscious heart.
This is the divine spark you received at conception, your participation in the Light of the Eternal.
We can summarize this entire law in a single word:
Beauty.
Closing Reflection
At the end of the path, the I is not measured by obedience to external rules, but by the harmony it has achieved and expressed.
There is only one compass worth following:
The Light that leads us home to Beauty.
I have a poster at the entrance of my home that says:
There is no greater freedom than the freedom to be yourself!
I may add:
Use it wisely!
Choose beauty!
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