@SophiaCycles Likewise, our cultural evil. We are whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. Privatized individuation always was a make-believe project.
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Geometric art with the following calligraphy. Living an authentic life means rejecting the hypocrisy of a society that claims to be democratic, but which violates the most elementary dignities of the Black community. It requires we must proclaim the liberation of the captives. It requires we must raise the hopes of a people who suffer age-old injustice.
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Geometric calligraphy with the following calligraphy: The divine is at stake in human affairs. Justice for the Black community is absolutely integral to the spiritual journey of White people.
@CACRadicalGrace @blackliturgist Contemplation without action? A fundamental repudiation of reciprocity itself. Existentially-speaking, a defective moral system. Heschel understood: "To do justice is what God demands of every man: it is the supreme commandment, and one that cannot be fulfilled vicariously."
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Justice is not an ancient custom, a human convention, but a transcendent demand. Justice is as much a necessity as breathing is, and a constant occupation. The survival of the world is itself a requirement of justice. Righteousness is not just a value; it is God’s part of human life, God’s stake in human history. Justice bespeaks a situation that transcends the individual; historical justice is the illumination of all men, enabling the inhabitants of the world to learn righteousness. Its validity is not only universal, but also eternal. Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Portrait of Oakland-based, Black, Zen Buddhist, Angel Kyoto Williams, with the following text fragment attached. Love and justice are not two. Without inner change there can be no outer change: without collective change, no change matters. Angel Kyodo Williams