Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@Jawnmard1 "... in this path there is only one sin and one virtue. The sin is the breath that escapes in forgetfulness, and the virtue is the breath that is breathed in awareness of the unity of being. It is as simple as that." - Sajjadanishin Zia Inayat-Khan ‘urf Sarafil Bawa

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 7 Oct 2023

@CenteringPrayer Easier done than said. Not so much watching the breath as breathing the watching. Breath itself alive to experience. Integrating the breath within the breath. Opening the Realm door with the breath key. Breath and river as one. Breath as a bridge. Only connect with your breath.

Copy of tweet here: 1/ Perhaps the holy, open secret of God-experience is not its ineffability as much as its closeness. We imagine a divide to be crossed, a calculus to be applied, a somewhere to be found. But what if the primal immediacy of aliveness, of personal experience itself, is made of God?
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Copy of tweet here: 1/ Perhaps the holy, open secret of God-experience is not its ineffability as much as its closeness. We imagine a divide to be crossed, a calculus to be applied, a somewhere to be found. But what if the primal immediacy of aliveness, of personal experience itself, is made of God?

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @johnmilbank3 The graced, backwoods beauty of an all-weather, Oregonian prayer mat: the plastic bin-liner I fold and pocket to place upon my favorite stump in a clear-cut, or atop a familiar, upturned, five-gallon bucket at field's edge. This week, in unceasing prayer, for the Holy Land.Quoted by@johnmilbank3 The graced, backwoods beauty of an all-weather, Oregonian prayer mat: the plastic bin-liner I fold and pocket to place upon my favorite stump in a clear-cut, or atop a familiar, upturned, five-gallon bucket at field's edge. This week, in unceasing prayer, for the Holy Land.