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RT @nick_routledge: @Zen_Moments As for reconciliatory alchemy? Thurman: “Enlightenment is not a simplified state. Not at all. It is the supreme tolerance of cognitive dissonance.” And Trungpa, “The chaos that takes place in your neurosis is the only home ground that you can build the mandala of awakening on.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 Feb 2022

@ploughmansfolly Bohr: “The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” Cynthia Bourgeault, an American voice amidst a diversity of planetary cultures recognizing the territory of reconciliation at the substrative, epistemological level.

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Quoted by8/ Practice, broadly speaking, in a Buddhist Mahāyāna key? Not a return to conceptual tidiness, but the unflinching capacity to let mutually annihilating perspectives—emptiness and form, self and no-self, samsara and nirvana—coexist in a compassionate life of unresolved clarity.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @CenteringPrayer @unsplash 1/ The 'inner': "If we enter into it, that chaos can resurrect us into a higher wisdom, rooted in the wisdom of the creative process. The chaos that we fear is the very thing that can free us." ~ Marion WoodmanQuoted by@CenteringPrayer @unsplash 1/ The 'inner': "If we enter into it, that chaos can resurrect us into a higher wisdom, rooted in the wisdom of the creative process. The chaos that we fear is the very thing that can free us." ~ Marion WoodmanQuoted byRT @nick_routledge: @pauljpastor Stability? Hardly an oasis of pacific mediocrity. Gandhi: “Non-violence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.” Transmutation. Owning and ending the cycle of violence and retaliation in the unequivocally supernatural locus of personal, earthly and cosmic redemption.Quoted by@pauljpastor Stability? Hardly an oasis of pacific mediocrity. Gandhi: “Non-violence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.” Transmutation. Owning and ending the cycle of violence and retaliation in the unequivocally supernatural locus of personal, earthly and cosmic redemption.