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@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.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 Dec 2021

@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@PloughBooks 4/ At its best, the South Asian revolutionary/yogic crossover named freedom as whole-person and whole-society transformation: body, nerve, will, imagination, community and history brought under disciplined, liberative engagement with the forces that bind freedom—inner and outer.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis Michael Meade, as corollary: “To the ontologically lost male, peace is boring.” Nietzsche: “In time of peace, the warlike person attacks himself.” And N. O. Brown: “The thing then, is not to abolish war, but to find the true war.”Quoted by@lukeburgis Michael Meade, as corollary: “To the ontologically lost male, peace is boring.” Nietzsche: “In time of peace, the warlike person attacks himself.” And N. O. Brown: “The thing then, is not to abolish war, but to find the true war.”Quoted by@MassimoFaggioli @commonwealmag @UniteThePoor 2/ @RichardRohrOFM “I am told that the Sermon on the Mount—the essence of Jesus’ teaching—is the least quoted Scripture in official Catholic Church documents.” Brown: “The thing then, is not to abolish war, but to find the true war.” Act as if the reign of God is here. Lk. 17:21Quoted by@TheKingCenter Experiencing violence as ultimately ours to own and end? A perspective transcending mortality is essential, some cultures aver; others, that sense, means and effect positively converge in the divine light of Redemptive promise; the messianic sunburst, manifesting. Prov. 10:25