RT @nick_routledge: @pauljpastor Stability? Hardly an oasis of pacific mediocrity. Gandhi: “Non-violence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.” Transmutation. Owning and ending the cycle of violence and retaliation in the unequivocally supernatural locus of personal, earthly and cosmic redemption.
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Excerpt of tweet thread here: Not unnaturally, where heaven and earth meet in this way, there is often bruising. Implicit in the prophetic function therefore, is the capacity to lay a sword, as Gibran describes it, between those who would with the sword and those who would with peace - to personally assume and transmute the archetypal hits and chokeholds at the local co-ordinates where incarnation enters history. Such schooling, in part, explains the consistent, unambiguous prophetic injunction to _embody_ divine qualities - the central metaphysical alchemy of actualizing a peaceful reality in the face of psychopathology’s myriad interior and externalized forms. And so prophets speak with unerring authority and utter pragmatism of the elemental and supernatural place of humility, forgiveness, faith & providential Grace in sustaining life, meaning and basic survival.
@Zen_Moments As for reconciliatory alchemy? Thurman: “Enlightenment is not a simplified state. Not at all. It is the supreme tolerance of cognitive dissonance.” And Trungpa, “The chaos that takes place in your neurosis is the only home ground that you can build the mandala of awakening on.”