Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@poetinbabylon Not unnaturally, where heaven & earth meet in this way, there is often bruising. Implicit in the prophetic function therefore, is the capacity to lay a sword, as Gibran describes it, between those who would with the sword and those who would with peace... ?s=20

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Quoted by@sonyasupposedly Your insights, cogent, coherent, eloquent. Functional non-retaliation is never passive or weak. Precisely the opposite: a dynamic selflessness freeing the intrinsic power at the heart of life in the image of peace, ending cycles of violence. Courage, the fuel of peacemaking.