Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@stewartdantec The eye of the beholder, I tell ya. ‘For now we see through a glass darkly’ (Cor. 1:13) And that's why Blake can say, if the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 14 Aug 2020

@yourauntemma 'We see the world as we are, not as it is,' is an ancient insight, common to global wisdom traditions. But oft credited to Rabbi Shemuel ben Nachmani in the Talmudic tractate, Berakhot. What truly matters? We ourselves may access the transfigurative alchemy such insight empowers.

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Quoted by3/ “As the Dalai Lama says so insightfully, “A change of heart is always a change of mind.” We could say the reverse as well—a true change of mind is also, essentially, a change of heart. Eventually, they both must change for us to see properly & contemplatively.” @RichardRohrOFM