@jonmsweeney Privatized salvation, an ontological vanity project and, practically speaking, a defective moral system. Heschel: "Impartiality with regard to history is a pretense." Moore: "A meditation doesn't end with a sitting or a contemplative walk but in an act of service to the world.”
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Copy of tweet here: Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel: "Do not mistake talk for action. Compassion fills no mouths, pity builds no houses." Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel: "To do justice is what God demands of every man. It is the supreme commandment, and one that cannot be fulfilled vicariously."
@lukeburgis end/ Then again, “How you get there is where you arrive. Privatized salvation, our quest for personal sanity and safety, never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with. Think about that." - @RichardRohrOFM
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This dynamic homeostasis in which inner-and-outer narratives effectively mix and match? The single co-evolutionary realm in which Reality comes to fullness in us, individually and together. The concrete reality of worldly and spiritual salvation, reconciliation and redemption. In the dialectics of Jewish mysticism, the drive outward is essentially considered equal to the inward drive. The re-establishment of all things in their proper place, which constitutes redemption, produces a totality knowing nothing of a division between inwardness and ‘outwardness, ensuring that one does ot fall victim to the other. This, the Messianic Moment, is therefore defined by a new ‘architecture of holiness' (Heschel). Personal redemption, a make-believe project. We are whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. Until then, we remain victims & victimizers.