Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@stephenrjmullan @lukeburgis end/ Respecting peoples' personal boundaries is key. If we make someone uncomfortable, we've got it wrong. Rumi: "There is a sun within every person." Plotinus: "To look into the sun, you must have eyes like the sun." What is required of us to harmonize with the power of the Sun?

Image: eyes. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking round shining like the sun. - Thomas Merton
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Image: eyes. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking round shining like the sun. - Thomas Merton

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Close up of eyes.

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Quoted by@pauljpastor @deanober 2/ Frankly, outside of centering prayer, I've barely dabbled in specifically Christian interior forms, but working with the breath or, rather, the Breath within the Breath, is culturally common, worldwide. Formless technes adapt readily, without fuss, to rigorous Xian orthodoxy.