Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@UssamaMakdisi @nytimes The great sage, Abraham Joshua Heschel, routs the derangement: "Impartiality with regard to history is a pretense." As a correlative, David Whyte: "Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are."

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 17 Nov 2023

@lukeburgis The price to be paid, perhaps, for a nationalist fallacy of exceptionalist absolution from the unicity of planetary reality and consequence. The transpersonal psychotherapist John Welwood: "As one spiritual wag put it, 'Self-knowledge is always bad news, at least initially.'"

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Quoted by9/ The Qur’an tells of signs—clear to those who reflect— but warns of a moment truth becomes undeniable, and choice dissolves. Faith must be chosen while the veil still stands. Beyond that point, even repentance may be illusion. What burns then is not faith—but consequence.