Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@RichardRohrOFM 2/ Western culture and spirituality are notably poor in breath practices which figure prominently, if not centrally, in the spiritual toolsets of Vedic, Buddhist, Daoist and Sufi practice forms, for example.

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Quoted by@pauljpastor @deanober 1/ A plethora of currents deliberately shape inner practices in experiential syntheses concordantly balancing spiritual bearings. Sufi 'wazifa', typically used in dyadic complements attuned to in-breath and out-breath, come immediately to mind, but there are countless others.Quoted byHow does such planetary mutualism, this deeper strata of relatedness, emerge? Where is the fundamental substrate of world peace, founded? “The Sufis endeavor to bring the divine viewpoint to light by experience rather than conceptualization," notes Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. 3/