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@TornadoNate @VividVoid_ More than anything, comparisons serve to distract, perhaps. Hanging, among others, with contemplative psychedelic-therapists of late, I'm reminded we are often more alert to the relative, solipsistic merits of whatever path yanks our chain, than the common, corporate point of it.

2/ “How you get there is where you arrive. Privatized salvation, our quest for personal sanity and safety, never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with. Think about that."
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2/ “How you get there is where you arrive. Privatized salvation, our quest for personal sanity and safety, never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with. Think about that."

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 7 Jun 2022

@Zen_Moments "A meditation doesn't end with a sitting or a contemplative walk but in an act of service to the world.” - Thomas Moore. “Your power is limited by your objective. If your objective is service, the power that comes through you is unlimited.” - Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan.

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Quoted by@pauljpastor 1/ But how *special* is the solo mystics' claim whereby the apprehension of direct, unmediated encounter 'usurps' the comprehension of say, a corporate path, the Word of mid-week Bible study and an immersive, embodied experience of the emergent body of love of Real church family?