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N. O. Brown: “To find meaning is to find work. In alchemy, the Great Work of Transformation; transform the nature of work. Labor is fertility. Instead of Gross Natural Product, reproduction. Reproduction of the eternal earth. Ecology instead of economy.” x.com/covidyoga/status/1364322822592503809?s=20

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @NatureSchoolSU @no_grave_ The recipe for Western Civ? Was just sharing with someone who sheltercares schizophrenics up McKenzie River way, about Tibetan psychiatry offering up three pillars for healing the mentally ill: house folk somewhere safe and naturally beautiful and feed them good food. Bingo.Quoted by@NatureSchoolSU @no_grave_ The recipe for Western Civ? Was just sharing with someone who sheltercares schizophrenics up McKenzie River way, about Tibetan psychiatry offering up three pillars for healing the mentally ill: house folk somewhere safe and naturally beautiful and feed them good food. Bingo.Quoted by@bearspeaks Digging wells for Palestine. So very lovely to wake to, Tom. 'Death of a Naturalist' a teenage favorite of mine. Here, deep in Oregon's greenness incarnate, I recall Norman O. Brown in 'Apocalypsis and/or Metamorphosis'; and the craft of digging.Quoted by@joseph_gaglione 1/ Kevin Kelly: "Artists, as mythmakers, are the first to explain new frontiers." Nollman, Why We Garden: "Paradise is found at that intersection where enlightenment meets a sense of place." Wilson, Paradise Gardening: "Perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden."Quoted by@normonics @gracie88888 @RizomaSchool end/ Then, there's a spirituality of earthwork - not simply work as prayer but *re-localizing* prayer. And in such planetary prayer, the universality of the Planetary as distinct from Nordic Christ. Eternity, not a calendar, first uttered Jesus. And springtimes rising, still.Quoted by@omniscommuniaQuoted by@ShaneClaiborne The Garden Project! Equally His beauty flows into salsa or a savior. Your path, inspiring, as always, dear brother!