Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@SophiaCycles The working key? Dynamically encountering the more-than-human realm in the natural sequence of a concrete, personal journey into Beauty's deepest ground. We are united in a single garment of destiny, after all.

Thomas Berry:
It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most
excellent being in the universe is the universe itself...Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe
as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as the matrix from which
life has emerged and on which life depends. Recovering this sense is essential to
establishing the framework for mutually enhancing human-Earth relations for the
flourishing of life on the planet.
Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth,
its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and
valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.
The Universe story is the quintessence of reality, and that is why it is so important to
know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself: you
do not know anything.
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Thomas Berry: It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself...Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as the matrix from which life has emerged and on which life depends. Recovering this sense is essential to establishing the framework for mutually enhancing human-Earth relations for the flourishing of life on the planet. Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us. The Universe story is the quintessence of reality, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself: you do not know anything.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Nov 2022

@SophiaCycles Vocatus atqua non vocatus deus aderit. A working conversation, then. "If one works faithfully and patiently at this task of balancing heaven and earth, eventually one may realize something more remarkable: that the two worlds are in fact one. - Robert Johnson

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7/ In this regard, a dynamic, co-evolutionary relationship with our habitat harkens back to the 'Deus humanus' of Renaissance philosophers, the wedding of part and whole, individual and Singularity, and our lives to the enormous force of the spirit of a time.
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There is not only anima mundi, the soul of the world, but also animus mundi—the sense of nature's intelligence and order.
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Copy of quote tweet: Nick Routledge · 7/ In this regard, a dynamic, co-evolutionary relationship with our habitat harkens back to the 'Deus humanus' of Renaissance philosophers, the wedding of part and whole, individual and Singularity, and our lives to the enormous force of the spirit of a time. Quote Tweet Thomas Moore There is not only anima mundi, the soul of the world, but also animus mundi—the sense of nature's intelligence and order.

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Quoted byUltimately, the greater unity arising in our experience consciously embraces empirical and transcendent realms as one, progressively wedding our particularized earth-boundedness to the quintessence of the Universe story. The truth comes to us disguised as our life.