{"id":1443,"date":"2021-06-04T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T18:42:22","slug":"purpose-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/purpose-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"BUT DE LA VIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=\u00a0\u00bb1&Prime; _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb4.16&Prime; global_colors_info=\u00a0\u00bb{}\u00a0\u00bb][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb4.22.2&Prime; background_size=\u00a0\u00bbinitial\u00a0\u00bb background_position=\u00a0\u00bbtop_left\u00a0\u00bb background_repeat=\u00a0\u00bbrepeat\u00a0\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00a0\u00bb{}\u00a0\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00a0\u00bb4_4&Prime; _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb4.16&Prime; custom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb|||\u00a0\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00a0\u00bb{}\u00a0\u00bb custom_padding__hover=\u00a0\u00bb|||\u00a0\u00bb][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb4.24.3&Prime; background_size=\u00a0\u00bbinitial\u00a0\u00bb background_position=\u00a0\u00bbtop_left\u00a0\u00bb background_repeat=\u00a0\u00bbrepeat\u00a0\u00bb hover_enabled=\u00a0\u00bb0&Prime; global_colors_info=\u00a0\u00bb{}\u00a0\u00bb sticky_enabled=\u00a0\u00bb0&Prime;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"385\">J\u2019ai pass\u00e9 tellement de soir\u00e9es dehors, assis sur ma chaise ber\u00e7ante, \u00e0 regarder les \u00e9toiles et \u00e0 me demander ce qui pouvait bien se passer l\u00e0-haut.<br data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"200\" \/>J\u2019imaginais diff\u00e9rentes esp\u00e8ces vivant sur ces mondes, construisant des villes \u00e9tranges. J\u2019imaginais certaines d\u2019entre elles voyageant entre les \u00e9toiles \u00e0 bord de vaisseaux incroyables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"534\">J\u2019\u00e9tais un r\u00eaveur, et je me demandais pourquoi j\u2019\u00e9tais ici. Y a-t-il une raison pour na\u00eetre sur ce monde dangereux, o\u00f9 je vais vieillir et mourir ?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"644\">Suis-je ici en transition entre deux lieux, incapable de me souvenir d\u2019o\u00f9 je viens ni de savoir o\u00f9 je vais ?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"646\" data-end=\"686\">Ou bien, suis-je une nouvelle cr\u00e9ation ?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"688\" data-end=\"751\">J\u2019ai lu sur l\u2019hindouisme et la possibilit\u00e9 de la r\u00e9incarnation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"1105\">L\u2019univers est si vaste ! Que sont ces formations que les astrologues ont d\u00e9couvertes si loin que leur lumi\u00e8re a mis des centaines de millions d\u2019ann\u00e9es \u00e0 nous parvenir ?<br data-start=\"921\" data-end=\"924\" \/>Ils ont calcul\u00e9 que ces formations \u00e9tranges faisaient plus de 200 millions d\u2019ann\u00e9es-lumi\u00e8re de large et qu\u2019elles ne seraient peut-\u00eatre que des parties d\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9ments encore plus grands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1107\" data-end=\"1157\">Des formations compos\u00e9es de milliers de galaxies !<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1159\" data-end=\"1255\">La taille de l\u2019univers est si grande qu\u2019elle d\u00e9passe l\u2019imagination ; elle est peut-\u00eatre infinie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1257\" data-end=\"1399\">Alors, quelle est ma signification ? Je ne suis qu\u2019une minuscule unit\u00e9 d\u2019une esp\u00e8ce qui ne s\u2019est m\u00eame pas encore \u00e9tendue aux \u00e9toiles voisines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1460\">Et si j\u2019\u00e9tais Dieu ? Ou du moins une infime partie de Lui ?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1578\">Et si tous les animaux, les insectes, les plantes \u00e9taient aussi une partie de Dieu ? Tous les plan\u00e8tes, les \u00e9toiles\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1580\" data-end=\"1874\">Si je suis Dieu ou une partie de Lui, je pourrais peut-\u00eatre me connecter \u00e0 cette partie infiniment plus grande de Moi, et faire en sorte que certains de mes souhaits se r\u00e9alisent. Peut-\u00eatre que chacun peut obtenir ce qu\u2019il d\u00e9sire s\u2019il y pense souvent et s\u2019efforce de faire advenir ses souhaits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1876\" data-end=\"1925\">Peut-\u00eatre que je peux faire advenir des miracles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1927\" data-end=\"2030\">Quelle est ma mission ici, si j\u2019en ai une ? Que dois-je faire pour que mon existence ait de la valeur ?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2032\" data-end=\"2055\">J\u2019ai tant de questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2057\" data-end=\"2065\">\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2067\" data-end=\"2373\">Un jour, j\u2019ai entrepris une longue randonn\u00e9e dans les bois, au nord de Montr\u00e9al. C\u2019\u00e9tait l\u2019hiver, et je me d\u00e9pla\u00e7ais \u00e0 ski en tra\u00e7ant une nouvelle piste. Je savais que si j\u2019avais un accident, si je me cassais une jambe ou une cheville, je mourrais, car il faisait tr\u00e8s froid et personne ne me retrouverait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2375\" data-end=\"2545\">Je n\u2019avais pas peur de prendre ce risque ; la r\u00e9compense, c\u2019\u00e9tait la paix, le silence de la nature sauvage, et ce sentiment que quelque chose d\u2019important pouvait arriver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2547\" data-end=\"3026\">Apr\u00e8s deux heures de marche, je suis arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 une for\u00eat de tr\u00e8s grands arbres. Ils \u00e9taient \u00e9normes, plus grands que tous les arbres que j\u2019avais vus, et il n\u2019y avait rien entre eux : pas de buissons, pas d\u2019herbe, pas de neige \u2014 seulement un sol nu, dur et compact\u00e9.<br data-start=\"2811\" data-end=\"2814\" \/>J\u2019ai enlev\u00e9 mes skis et j\u2019ai commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 marcher dans cette for\u00eat. Elle ressemblait \u00e0 une cath\u00e9drale de piliers gigantesques avec une canop\u00e9e si haute que je ne pouvais pas voir si elle \u00e9tait compos\u00e9e de feuilles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3028\" data-end=\"3228\">Il y avait un silence total, pas de vent, mais je sentais la pr\u00e9sence d\u2019esprits puissants. C\u2019\u00e9tait comme si les arbres \u00e9taient des \u00eatres conscients qui m\u2019observaient, essayant de communiquer avec moi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3230\" data-end=\"3437\">L\u00e0, j\u2019ai su que j\u2019allais enfin trouver les r\u00e9ponses \u00e0 toutes mes questions. Je n\u2019avais qu\u2019\u00e0 \u00e9couter les arbres, peut-\u00eatre que je pourrais finir par leur parler. Il me suffisait de poser les bonnes questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3439\" data-end=\"3504\">Mais aussi fort que j\u2019essayais, je ne trouvais pas ces questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3506\" data-end=\"3763\">J\u2019ai perdu la notion de ce que j\u2019y faisais ; je ne me souvenais de rien. J\u2019\u00e9tais perdu, je marchais sans but, incapable de me rappeler \u00e0 quoi je pensais pendant que je marchais. Puis j\u2019ai retrouv\u00e9 mes skis. Ils \u00e9taient exactement l\u00e0 o\u00f9 je les avais laiss\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3765\" data-end=\"3991\">Une heure s\u2019\u00e9tait \u00e9coul\u00e9e depuis que j\u2019\u00e9tais entr\u00e9 dans cette for\u00eat d\u2019arbres g\u00e9ants. Je n\u2019avais aucune envie d\u2019y retourner, alors j\u2019ai remis mes skis et je suis retourn\u00e9 au monast\u00e8re b\u00e9n\u00e9dictin o\u00f9 j\u2019avais stationn\u00e9 ma voiture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3993\" data-end=\"4162\">\u00c9trange, n\u2019est-ce pas ? Est-ce que c\u2019est vraiment arriv\u00e9 ou ai-je r\u00eav\u00e9 ? C\u2019\u00e9tait il y a plus de 50 ans, alors je n\u2019en suis plus s\u00fbr. C\u2019\u00e9tait probablement juste un r\u00eave !<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"4164\" data-end=\"4550\">Mais lorsque je peins, j\u2019essaie de me connecter \u00e0 cette partie plus grande de moi, si elle existe, et je demande de l\u2019aide pour produire une \u0153uvre exceptionnelle. Je ne sais pas \u00e0 quoi je me branche, mais je sens que mon cerveau est lentement amplifi\u00e9 et que je re\u00e7ois une nouvelle \u00e9nergie ; quand je sens cela, je l\u00e2che prise ; je commence \u00e0 peindre sans r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir, de fa\u00e7on spontan\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"4552\" data-end=\"4978\">Le r\u00e9sultat est souvent surprenant. Je regarde certaines de mes toiles avec \u00e9merveillement, sans croire que c\u2019est moi qui les ai faites ; sans me souvenir de comment je les ai r\u00e9alis\u00e9es ; je les regarde avec la conviction que je n\u2019avais pas le talent n\u00e9cessaire pour les peindre.<br data-start=\"4831\" data-end=\"4834\" \/>Je remercie celui ou celle, de ce monde sup\u00e9rieur, qui m\u2019a aid\u00e9, me demandant s\u2019il s\u2019agissait d\u2019un ange, d\u2019un ami d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9\u2026 ou peut-\u00eatre de Dieu ?<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J\u2019ai pass\u00e9 tellement de soir\u00e9es dehors, assis sur ma chaise ber\u00e7ante, \u00e0 regarder les \u00e9toiles et \u00e0 me demander ce qui pouvait bien se passer l\u00e0-haut.J\u2019imaginais diff\u00e9rentes esp\u00e8ces vivant sur ces mondes, construisant des villes \u00e9tranges. J\u2019imaginais certaines d\u2019entre elles voyageant entre les \u00e9toiles \u00e0 bord de vaisseaux incroyables. J\u2019\u00e9tais un r\u00eaveur, et je me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<h6><strong>| HISTOIRE EN ANGLAIS |<\/strong><\/h6>\r\n<span class=\"text\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I spent so many evening hours, outside, on my rocking chair, looking at the stars and wondering what might be happening up there.\r\nI imagined different species living on those worlds building strange cities. I imagined some of them traveling between the stars in incredible spaceships.\r\n\r\nI was a dreamer and I wondered why I was here. Was there a reason for coming to this dangerous world where I was going to grow old and die?\r\n\r\nWas I here in transition between two places, unable to remember neither where I came from nor where I was going?\r\n\r\nOr could it be that I was a new creation?\r\n\r\nI read about Hinduism and the possibility of reincarnation.\r\n\r\nThe universe is so big! What are those formations the astrologists found so far away that their light took hundreds of millions of years just to reach us. They calculated that the strange formations were more than 200 million light years in size and possibly only parts of even bigger things.\r\n\r\nFormations made out of thousands of galaxies!\r\n\r\nThe size of the universe is so big that it is impossible to imagine; it might be infinite.\r\n\r\nThen what is my significance? I am just a tiny unit of a species that hasn\u2019t even yet spread out to the neighboring stars.\r\n\r\nWhat if I am God? I mean just a tiny part of Him!\r\n\r\nWhat if all the animals, insects and plants are part of God? All the planets, the stars\u2026\r\n\r\nIf I am God or a part of Him, I could possibly connect with the infinitely bigger part of Me and get some of my wishes to come through. Maybe anyone can get what anyone wants if one thinks about it often and tries to make his wishes come through.\r\n\r\nPerhaps one can make miracles happen.\r\n\r\nPerhaps one can get help from one\u2019s infinitely bigger part of one, God, if one asks for it often and tries to be worthy of help?\r\n\r\nWhat is my mission here if I have one? What should I do that would make my existence worthy?\r\n\r\nI have so many questions.\r\n\r\n......................\r\n\r\nOnce I went for a long trek in the woods North of Montreal. It was winter and I was traveling on my skis opening a new trail. I knew that if I had an accident breaking a leg or an ankle, I would die for it was very cold and no one would find me.\r\n\r\nBut I didn\u2019t mind taking the risk; the reward was peace, quiet wilderness, and the feeling that something important might happen.\r\n\r\nI had traveled for two hours when I reached the tall trees. They were huge, bigger than any tree I had seen and there was nothing between them, no bushes, no grass and no snow, just bare, hard packed dirt. I took off my skis and started to walk inside that forest. It looked like a cathedral of enormous pillars with a canopy so far up that I couldn\u2019t see if the canopy was made up of leaves.\r\n\r\nThere was silence, no wind, but I sensed the presence of mighty minds. It was like the trees were sentient beings watching me, trying to communicate with me.\r\n\r\nHere I knew that I would finally find the answers to all my questions, I just had to listen to the trees and I would eventually be able to communicate with them. I just had to ask the questions.\r\n\r\nBut as hard as I was trying, I couldn\u2019t find the questions.\r\n\r\nI lost track of what I did there; I can\u2019t remember anything. I found my skis where I had left them; an hour had passed since I entered that forest of tall trees. \u00a0I felt no desire to walk back in between them, so I put on my skis and returned to the Benedictine monastery where I had parked my car.\r\n\r\nStrange isn\u2019t it? Is it true or did I dream that? Probably just a dream!\r\n\r\nWhen I paint though, I try to branch on that bigger part of me if there is one and I ask for help to produce the most amazing painting. I don\u2019t know on what I am branching, but I do connect on something for I can feel that my brain is slowly enhanced and I am receiving new energy; and then I let go; I try to abandon myself to those forces and just do it in a spontaneous way.\r\n\r\nThe result is often surprising and I look at some of my paintings in wonder, not believing that I did them; not remembering how I did them; and I look at them with the conviction that I did not have the talent to make them. Then I thank whoever from that superior world that has helped me wondering if that whoever is an angel or a deceased friend, perhaps God?<\/span><\/span>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-histoires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5175,"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/5175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriesaintpaul.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}