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RT @nick_routledge: @Sophiologist_ I likewise appreciate how the contemporary contemplative master Cynthia Bourgeault describes this epochal shift in our entire planetary frame of reference, emerging not despite or apart from or in opposition to our conditions, but _through_ them. Feb. 2024 youtu.be/v6gXjBulSPY?si=VmYGHPKsjuSZPnYd

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 24 Apr 2024

@brianmclaren 8/ Today, with inner and outer life yet again initially presenting as destabilized and calamitous, the always-flowing wisdom river manifests once more as a form of initiation, guidance and authority. "The vicious circle gives way to the vital circle.” (Panikkar)

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Gita 4:7-8
Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata,
And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth ;
For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers,
For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.
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Copy of tweet here: Gita 4:7-8 Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata, And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth ; For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers, For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Plough 1/21 Theological aesthetics often stops short of the incarnational reality where God's beauty manifests. Even when beauty is rightly named as revelatory—as von Balthasar insists, as O'Donohue celebrates—it remains something we perceive, admire, contemplate.Quoted by@Plough 1/21 Theological aesthetics often stops short of the incarnational reality where God's beauty manifests. Even when beauty is rightly named as revelatory—as von Balthasar insists, as O'Donohue celebrates—it remains something we perceive, admire, contemplate.Quoted by@Plough end/ What of Putin and Netanyahu and their ilk? What of the entirety of life on earth, you mean. To paraphrase Heschel, “We cannot deal with war unless we deal with all of man, the nature of existence, of doing, and meaning." Simply stated, we're calling it a Day @UniteThePoor