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@Explore_Vintage @SophiaCycles That's a good word for it! O'Donohue describes "the persistent courage to be at ease with what is unfinished." The spur of conscious suffering as intrinsic to our acceptance of wholeness. "A steadfast spirit within me." Shantideva: "There is no practice as effective as patience."

The purpose of apprehending the divine is to maintain the endurance of the one who apprehends with the joy of apprehending. - Abraham Abulafia
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The purpose of apprehending the divine is to maintain the endurance of the one who apprehends with the joy of apprehending. - Abraham Abulafia

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Aug 2023

@pauljpastor Stability? Hardly an oasis of pacific mediocrity. Gandhi: “Non-violence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.” Transmutation. Owning and ending the cycle of violence and retaliation in the unequivocally supernatural locus of personal, earthly and cosmic redemption.

Excerpt of tweet thread here: Not unnaturally, where heaven and earth meet in this way, there is often bruising. Implicit in the prophetic function therefore, is the capacity to lay a sword, as Gibran describes it, between those who would with the sword and those who would with peace - to personally assume and transmute the archetypal hits and chokeholds at the local co-ordinates where incarnation enters history. Such schooling, in part, explains the consistent, unambiguous prophetic injunction to _embody_ divine qualities - the central metaphysical alchemy of actualizing a peaceful reality in the face of psychopathology’s myriad interior and externalized forms. And so prophets speak with unerring authority and utter pragmatism of the elemental and supernatural place of humility, forgiveness, faith & providential Grace in sustaining life, meaning and basic survival.
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Excerpt of tweet thread here: Not unnaturally, where heaven and earth meet in this way, there is often bruising. Implicit in the prophetic function therefore, is the capacity to lay a sword, as Gibran describes it, between those who would with the sword and those who would with peace - to personally assume and transmute the archetypal hits and chokeholds at the local co-ordinates where incarnation enters history. Such schooling, in part, explains the consistent, unambiguous prophetic injunction to _embody_ divine qualities - the central metaphysical alchemy of actualizing a peaceful reality in the face of psychopathology’s myriad interior and externalized forms. And so prophets speak with unerring authority and utter pragmatism of the elemental and supernatural place of humility, forgiveness, faith & providential Grace in sustaining life, meaning and basic survival.

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Quoted by@vividvoid In a mad world, the courage, humility and persistence required to keep returning the world to love is often mistaken for weakness. In practice, part of one’s cruciform role is to be a pacific, patiently enduring locus upon which others make unmitigated assholes of themselves.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @SophiaCycles The patient waiting never ceases, of course, nor the acceptance such wholeness, enduring, asks of us.Quoted by@SophiaCycles The patient waiting never ceases, of course, nor the acceptance such wholeness, enduring, asks of us.