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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: this is to lose consciousness of oneself. In the best of
times, it is but by flashes, when our whole nature is clear,
strong and conscious, and events conspire to leave us free,
that we enjoy communion with our soul. At the worst, we are
so fallen and passive that we may say shortly we have none.
An arctic torpor seizes upon men. Although built of nerves,
and set adrift in a stimulating world, they develop a
tendency to go bodily to sleep; consciousness becomes
engrossed among the reflex and mechanical parts of life; and
soon loses both the will and power to look higher
considerations in the face. This is ruin; this is the last
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