Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@antoniogm Beautifully stated, and a deeply humane conversation. Humility, s’where it’s at.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Jun 2021

@stewartdantec In the cult of celebrity or personality, for example, we abstain from life’s great possibilities and responsibilities by giving over the life-giving spark within us, our own inner brilliance (or 'scintilla' as the medievals named it) to someone else. Jesusolatory, no different.

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Quoted by@SophiaCycles Yes. “I am not your teacher,” a mantra of perennial wisdom. In Zen Buddhism, Huang Po: “There are no teachers of Zen.” In Heraclitus, “Don’t listen to me but listen to Logos, and agree that all things are one." In Xianity, ”God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.”