Filters in a Mortal Life (Image Source: Kitchen Cooking) What was once meant to guide began to divide, and what began to divide began to decide, and what began to decide began to deny, and what it denies was not faith, but freedom. Division created division, and division within division became domination, where the higher called themselves higher by lowering others lower, until no one was truly high, and no one was allowed to rise. Love was meant to be found, but love became filtered, and what was filtered was reduced, and what was reduced was controlled, until love was no longer love, but selection. The more we filter, the less we find, and the less we find, the more we justify the filters, until we believe the loss was protection, and not the quiet disappearance of what could have been. It is easier to climb what is already grown, but it is truer to grow what is not, because growth shared becomes meaning, while growth borrowed becomes comfort. Life became conditional because conditio...