@lukeburgis end/ Then again, “How you get there is where you arrive. Privatized salvation, our quest for personal sanity and safety, never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with. Think about that." - @RichardRohrOFM
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This dynamic homeostasis in which inner-and-outer narratives effectively mix and match? The single co-evolutionary realm in which Reality comes to fullness in us, individually and together. The concrete reality of worldly and spiritual salvation, reconciliation and redemption. In the dialectics of Jewish mysticism, the drive outward is essentially considered equal to the inward drive. The re-establishment of all things in their proper place, which constitutes redemption, produces a totality knowing nothing of a division between inwardness and ‘outwardness, ensuring that one does ot fall victim to the other. This, the Messianic Moment, is therefore defined by a new ‘architecture of holiness' (Heschel). Personal redemption, a make-believe project. We are whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. Until then, we remain victims & victimizers.
@CACRadicalGrace @blackliturgist Contemplation without action? A fundamental repudiation of reciprocity itself. Existentially-speaking, a defective moral system. Heschel understood: "To do justice is what God demands of every man: it is the supreme commandment, and one that cannot be fulfilled vicariously."
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Justice is not an ancient custom, a human convention, but a transcendent demand. Justice is as much a necessity as breathing is, and a constant occupation. The survival of the world is itself a requirement of justice. Righteousness is not just a value; it is God’s part of human life, God’s stake in human history. Justice bespeaks a situation that transcends the individual; historical justice is the illumination of all men, enabling the inhabitants of the world to learn righteousness. Its validity is not only universal, but also eternal. Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Portrait of Oakland-based, Black, Zen Buddhist, Angel Kyoto Williams, with the following text fragment attached. Love and justice are not two. Without inner change there can be no outer change: without collective change, no change matters. Angel Kyodo Williams