Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@Samantharhill @holdengraber Words clunky, but a 'universalist truth' is that new beginnings begin with, literally, each breath, in 'the breath within the breath.' Here, for example, the contemporary Sufi master, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, on new beginnings as divine creativity.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Sept 2020

@RichardRohrOFM 7/ “For the Sufi Kalabadhi, as God exhales, God releases the potentialities latent in the Divine Being from the solitude of unknowing: the cloud of unknowing (al-’ ama), the level that remains a mystery (al-ghayb) for humans, the treasury of the divine secrets (sirr as-sirr)...”

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Quoted by@lukeburgis New beginnings. Here, a Universal Sufi analog.Quoted by@NoemaMag @nils_gilman @tobias_rees Great. Odd thing to say but the role of the Breath is not to be overstated around new beginnings. Le divine nudge. By the by, had dinner with @MsJodieEvans this eve. Delightful chat was of you. Jodie mentions this lot: https://www.mstbrazil.org/content/what-mst Would you like a direct introduction?