@BrianZahnd @dljones555 1/2 The realistic condition? Non-retaliation, the supernal pivot upon which the world, through us, returns to love. Moltmann: "The suffering of this love is the most fruitful and most liberating power." N. Brown: “The thing then, is not to abolish war, but to find the true war.”
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@ nick_routledge @RichardRohrOFM and @CACRadicalGrace 1/2 “Love of our enemies is the sunrise of life, and the realistic condition for the survival of humanity. We have been the enemies of our enemies long enough. In the discipleship of Jesus we experience the liberating power of love, love that is quite literally disarming...” Quote tweet: Jul 27, 2021s God's love seeks the enemy and is perfected in the enemy. If it were not for this, none of us could talk about God's love at all.
@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