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RT @nick_routledge: @Eternally1776 @TaraAnnThieke Beautifully stated. I'm also reminded of Rilke's, "Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work", the spirited call to functionally resacralize the fullness of our days and, therefore, our whole world, as a substratively regenerative encounter.

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N. O. Brown: “To find meaning is to find work. In alchemy, the Great Work of Transformation; transform the nature of work. Labor is fertility. Instead of Gross Natural Product, reproduction. Reproduction of the eternal earth. Ecology instead of economy.”

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Brown: “And labor to be an act of love. Homo laborans, man in labor, is man amans amare, in love with loving, and seeking an object for his love. Return culture to the root; rediscover our roots, the radicalism. The Garden Project.”

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N. O. Brown: “Laborare est orare, to labor is to pray. Overcoming the distinction between the active and the contemplative. Overcoming the distinction between works and grace. The Garden Project.” The heaven of earth, made Real. The Third Way.
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Copy of thread here: N. O. Brown: “To find meaning is to find work. In alchemy, the Great Work of Transformation; transform the nature of work. Labor is fertility. Instead of Gross Natural Product, reproduction. Reproduction of the eternal earth. Ecology instead of economy.” · Brown: “And labor to be an act of love. Homo laborans, man in labor, is man amans amare, in love with loving, and seeking an object for his love. Return culture to the root; rediscover our roots, the radicalism. The Garden Project.” · N. O. Brown: “Laborare est orare, to labor is to pray. Overcoming the distinction between the active and the contemplative. Overcoming the distinction between works and grace. The Garden Project.” The heaven of earth, made Real. The Third Way.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 3 Sept 2023

@brightabyss That's a particularly incisive, lucid and thorough take, Jeanette. We are meaning-seeking creatures after all, and a greater sense of wholeness requires, well, living the fitting in. Coming home to belonging itself, a habitually habitable love affair. Obvious when you see it, eh?

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“It’s been brilliant to feel connected to places & people that are at the cutting edge of cultural change & to feel the warmth of that beating heart” - Jo Homan, Education, Skills & Training Manager. Read more about our work in #London on our latest blog: https://bit.ly/41K47DD

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That's it! The deep ecology of love. "...places & people that are at the cutting edge of cultural change & to feel the warmth of that beating heart," and, naturally, Vandana Shiva: “Biodiversity and cultural diversity need each other for the regeneration of nature and culture.”

Image: That's why today's news of a seed-increase collaboration with the heartland of Oregon's refugee-farming community lands so sweetly. Good friends, our Rohingya, Ukrainian, Rwandan and DRC Congolese allies in northern Oregon. About 30 families in all. Refugees from war and genocide, for the most part.
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Copy of tweet thread: “It’s been brilliant to feel connected to places & people that are at the cutting edge of cultural change & to feel the warmth of that beating heart” - Jo Homan, Education, Skills & Training Manager. Read more about our work in #London on our latest blog: bit.ly/41K47DD Image of smiling folk gathered and chatting That's it! The deep ecology of love. "...places & people that are at the cutting edge of cultural change & to feel the warmth of that beating heart," and, naturally, Vandana Shiva: “Biodiversity and cultural diversity need each other for the regeneration of nature and culture.” Image: That's why today's news of a seed-increase collaboration with the heartland of Oregon's refugee-farming community lands so sweetly. Good friends, our Rohingya, Ukrainian, Rwandan and DRC Congolese allies in northern Oregon. About 30 families in all. Refugees from war and genocide, for the most part.

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9/ So long in exile from true unity with Ourselves, each Other, and Creation, we now return to an intimacy with the Ground of life fully lived, restoring the foreground we call history with its regenerative power, and the imaginal backdrop gifting our lives instructive meaning.

12/ Some call it 'Good News.' Here's the Californian, Gary Snyder: "This is a revolution not of guns but of consciousness, won by seizing the key myths, archetypes, ecstasies and eschatologies so that life won't seem worth living unless one is on the transforming energy's side."
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: 9/ So long in exile from true unity with Ourselves, each Other, and Creation, we now return to an intimacy with the Ground of life fully lived, restoring the foreground we call history with its regenerative power, and the imaginal backdrop gifting our lives instructive meaning. 12/ Some call it 'Good News.' Here's the Californian, Gary Snyder: "This is a revolution not of guns but of consciousness, won by seizing the key myths, archetypes, ecstasies and eschatologies so that life won't seem worth living unless one is on the transforming energy's side."

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Quoted by27/ In this light, neighborliness becomes the lens through which the messianic is rightly seen. Not rapture, but rootedness. Sahaja. The return to truth. The architecture of shared life, rightly tended. Fruit trees, potlucks, refuge—these are not Rishi symbols, but sacraments.Quoted by@AimeTim 4/ The web of life is a food web. As such, the reinhabitory foodshed movement defines the leading edge of a planetary reconciliation in which faithful aspiration toward personal, corporate, earthly and cosmic harmony coalesces in a simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection.