Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @noonessleep

@noonessleep 1/ Beautifully stated and I couldn’t agree more. Non-retaliation, the essential pivot-point upon which the entire world returns to love, in and through us. We are one. As Yeats understood, “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves.”

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Quoted by@sssfCommunity The world-changing teleology of His second great precept: perfecting God in the perfection of loving Another. Gibran: “When you enjoy loving your neighbor it ceases to be a virtue.” Bourgeault: "Salvation is measured by the capacity to love your neighbor as yourself."Quoted by@antoniogm “Non-violence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.” - Gandhi. One doesn’t ‘abjure’ violence, one suffers and transmutes it, ending the cycle of violence and retaliation in the unequivocally supernatural locus of personal, earthly and cosmic experience.