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RT @nick_routledge: @Owen_Barfield [Rumi] would say, though, that poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it." - Coleman Barks

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"What Nietzsche was denouncing was an insidious love of abstractions indulged in by priests, teachers and idealists of every kind." - Cate
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“As peace ambassadors we must exit the matrix of hallucinated projections. Healing the wound of abstractions is crucial to peacework.”     ~ James O'Dea
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And while we're on the topic of abstraction as enslavement...

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Thoreau noted a hundred and sixty years ago that we had grown imprisoned by the abstractions we created. His longest chapter in Walden is titled, and decries our growing enslavement to, “Economics." - James Hollis
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Copy of tweet: And while we're on the topic of abstraction as enslavement... SophiaCycles (Béa Gonzalez) Thoreau noted a hundred and sixty years ago that we had grown imprisoned by the abstractions we created. His longest chapter in Walden is titled, and decries our growing enslavement to, “Economics." - James Hollis

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 Apr 2023

@RizomaSchool Bly spoke of, "healing the wound of abstractions". Humanity's root ailment perhaps. “It is an apocalypse of mind and eye we need,” asserts John Moriarty, “an apocalypse that opens the veils of mind and eye, not an apocalypse that pulls down the stars, that obliterates the sea.”

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Quoted by@johnmilbank3 So treasure Nature in your image. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” - Thoreau. "Jesus, our hero of integration." - Moriarty. Happy Solstice, good sir. ?s=20