@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
@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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Copy of tweet: "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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Copy of tweet: and “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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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