Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@CarlMcColman Rumi hit the mark: "Mystics are experts in laziness. They rely on it, because they continuously see God working all around them. The harvest keeps coming in, yet they never even did the plowing!" Certainly, an MO to live by. Don't play politics: let God handle strategy.

Photograph of my hermitage, behind Daoist statuary and sign reading 'The Lazy Path Garden'.
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Photograph of my hermitage, behind Daoist statuary and sign reading 'The Lazy Path Garden'.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Jul 2022

@sssfCommunity 4/ Ananda Coomaraswamy defined such unceasing recognition of transcendent reality and empirical reality, matter and spirit, and subject and object, experienced as a simultaneous, single state, as, "The last achievement of all thought. Then there is no sacred or profane.”

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Quoted by@BrianZahnd Isn't it wonderful to encounter those occasions where we ourselves become God-given vessels for grace! Goodness, it lifts morale.Quoted by@helioscomm @RizomaSchool @LMSacasas There's always a place! Or, as a folk sage, deep in the Oklahoma backwoods once put it to me, "There ain't nuthin' simple 'bout simple livin', Nick." We may not need to know much to live well, but realizing that, it seems, takes knowing lots! I do paint. Would you like a picture?