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@SherPoint 2/ If not unity, what do we 'see' then? As a rule, an identification with the distinctions and divisions of materialist and religious logic; the forms, concepts, rationalizations and, ultimately, caricatures of reality co-existent with fallacies of ontological detachment.

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Where in our seeing do we fracture Reality? How might we re-perceive perception itself as a unifying rather than dualizing experience? To what degree have each of us been ‘divided and conquered’ by the epistemological shibboleth of an idolized form of 'departmental conflict'?
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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 24 Aug 2023

@Rishardtrading @EsmeLKPartridge Werner Heisenberg: "Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows." Mark Epstein: "What I had learned from Buddhism was that I did not have to know myself analytically as much as I had to tolerate not knowing."

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7/ "...The great equalizers dispensed by the scientific method are the tools, those analytical tools. The miracle of genius is replaced by the standardization mechanism. But fools with tools are still fools, and don't let your Phi Beta Kappa key fool you."
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Copy of tweet: 7/ "...The great equalizers dispensed by the scientific method are the tools, those analytical tools. The miracle of genius is replaced by the standardization mechanism. But fools with tools are still fools, and don't let your Phi Beta Kappa key fool you."

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"The major heresy of the Western churches is that they have largely turned the very meaning of faith into its exact opposite. True faith involves not knowing and even not needing to know, but we made faith demanding to know and insisting that we do know!" @RichardRohrOFM
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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @krumbbumm True, but there's still the moving constraints of mortality - our very imperfections central and essential to it - and the down-and-dirty, moment-to-moment alchemy of graciously adapting to a larger culture in the grip of a form of mass insanity. We practice with every breath.Quoted by@krumbbumm True, but there's still the moving constraints of mortality - our very imperfections central and essential to it - and the down-and-dirty, moment-to-moment alchemy of graciously adapting to a larger culture in the grip of a form of mass insanity. We practice with every breath.