Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@CarlMcColman 1/ The wonderful Rami Shapiro! It seems to me the nitty gritty, cosmic details are ultimately *stabilized* in the resurrective minutiae of messy, corporeal, quotidian life. Humility, the perfection of luminous wisdom, is surely made here. And what magnificent exemplars we have!

Copy of tweet here: "...a capacity for mutuality (see Matthew 7:7-11), which implies a basic humility...your life is not about you, but you are about Life. “I live now not I, but Another Life lives in me,” to paraphrase Paul’s poetic words (Galatians 2:20)." Can we begin to see ourselves as only part of the universe, just a fragment of it, not its center? Can we give ourselves to accepting the heat and the rain, the pain and the limitations, the inconveniences and discomforts of life, without setting out to passively punish the rest of the human race for the daily exigencies that come with being human? Can we smile at what we have not smiled at for years? Can we give ourselves away to those who need us? Can we speak our truth without needing to be right and accept the vagaries of life now—without needing the entire rest of the world to swaddle us beyond any human justification for... Joan Chittister
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Copy of tweet here: "...a capacity for mutuality (see Matthew 7:7-11), which implies a basic humility...your life is not about you, but you are about Life. “I live now not I, but Another Life lives in me,” to paraphrase Paul’s poetic words (Galatians 2:20)." Can we begin to see ourselves as only part of the universe, just a fragment of it, not its center? Can we give ourselves to accepting the heat and the rain, the pain and the limitations, the inconveniences and discomforts of life, without setting out to passively punish the rest of the human race for the daily exigencies that come with being human? Can we smile at what we have not smiled at for years? Can we give ourselves away to those who need us? Can we speak our truth without needing to be right and accept the vagaries of life now—without needing the entire rest of the world to swaddle us beyond any human justification for... Joan Chittister

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 27 May 2023

@dysangelistes @AlbertBikaj @ConservantRight @RichardRohrOFM: "I am afraid that the closer you get to the Light, the more of your shadow you see. Thus truly holy people are *always* humble people."

Copy of tweet: SophiaCycles (Béa Gonzalez) [O]riginally the Christian tradition recognized that one carries the opposite within oneself. St. Paul said, “For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.” That’s the statement of a depth psychologist.~John Sanford, Meeting the Shadow 8:00 AM · Sep 20, 2022
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Copy of tweet: SophiaCycles (Béa Gonzalez) [O]riginally the Christian tradition recognized that one carries the opposite within oneself. St. Paul said, “For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.” That’s the statement of a depth psychologist.~John Sanford, Meeting the Shadow 8:00 AM · Sep 20, 2022

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