@SophiaCycles Funny how we seem to keep cycling back to the same, essential psychic alchemy: include and transcend; end the cycle of violence and retaliation in the unequivocally supernatural locus of creative experience. Fwiw, a Christological perspective...
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Copy of quote: The problem with the word patience,” said Zen master Suzuki Roshi, “is that it implies we are waiting for something to get better... A more accurate word for this quality is constancy, a capacity to be with what is true moment after moment". ~Frank Ostaseski
@bakerjjw @BrianZahnd @BKristofferson Exquisitely stated, John. Experiencing violence as ours to own and end? A perspective transcending mortality is essential, some aver; others, that sense, means and effect positively converge in the divine light of Redemptive promise; the messianic sunburst, manifest. Prov. 10:25
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet beginning here: Hmm. I was looking elsewhere but I wonder if the central imperative of the Jesus Event marks a defining threshold in this regard. Why? His radical, if not original, exhortation to love one’s enemies, effectively grounded unconditional love as a manifest force for planetary peace. Image: abstract painting of plants with calligraphy. We must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness. Rheinhold Niebhur. Quote Tweet 2/2 The love which Jesus put in the place of retaliation is love of our enemy. Love your enemies – the suffering of this love is the most fruitful and most liberating power.” - #JuergenMoltmann