Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@SophiaCycles A common, universal, inter-spiritual fundamental, as it happens: anyone faithful to truth, never interposes other objects - the idolatry of a prophet, savior, or worldview, say - between themselves and a living relationship with what is most Real.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 18 Oct 2021

@CACRadicalGrace 1/ Someone needs to say it: we have made of Jesus an idol. This hocus-pocus of false shepherds, our cartoon caricature of the Incarnation (“a sort of constant triumphal story” as @stewartdantec names it) effectively banishes the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality.

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Quoted by@sssfCommunity @RichardRohrOFM 9/ Kabir, the Indian poet-saint sometimes referred to as ‘the Christ of the East’ mirrored Shankara's contemplative insight with a scathing dismissal of religious authority precisely echoing that of the Jesus Event: "Pandit, you’ve got it wrong. Your ideas are false.”Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: #layingthesmackdown Placed your bets on a celebrity - secular, religious, or otherwise? Oh, dear. Giving your life-force (or 'scintilla', the medievals named it) over to an unlived life of personality worship is hardly the Real McCoy.Quoted by#layingthesmackdown Placed your bets on a celebrity - secular, religious, or otherwise? Oh, dear. Giving your life-force (or 'scintilla', the medievals named it) over to an unlived life of personality worship is hardly the Real McCoy.Quoted by@nils_gilman @moshik_temkin As such, “I am not your teacher,” a mantra among authentic guides - making the clear distinction between a (mediating) finger pointing a way, and one’s own, (unmediated), native, direct, immediate experience of the way itself. A distinction not always popular among clerics.