A World on Fire
Prologue
You are what your deep driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.
~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV
I have studied the lines of Destiny for more than two thousand years, and still, I cannot point to one node or another in the lines and say – yes, this is the decision that will change all the rest.
If we are to believe, as I now must, that free will is a part of the natural order, and each and every one of our choices have meaning and weight, it cannot be foretold, or prophesised, where or when a decision will take a soul to this destiny or to that one.
I only know that of all the choices I have made, and of all the choices I have witnessed watching humankind on this small, insignificant planet, the one I made on January 8th, in the year 2010, was the most important.
If not for the world, then for the brothers whom I had come to feel as closer to me than my own family.
