@TaraAnnThieke De Chardin: "Our calling isn't to turn from the world to God but to turn to God in the world." Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari: "Why do you look for God up there? He’s here! Here!" Closer still, @RichardRohrOFM often quotes Paula D'Arcy's zinger. Incarnation as co-evolutionary theo-drama.
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Copy of tweet hereL Be fab if some folk had dirt under their nails. Deep incarnation is integral ecology in dynamic practice, after all; growing from and entangled with the Earth; not a concept, but a co-evolutionary intelligence, power and teleology manifesting only as it's co-creatively inhabited. Telling, the reinhabitory foodshed movement and New Creation theology providentially stumbling upon a common 'Adamaic' tongue. An example? Regenerative designers will describe the 'resurrective ontology' of 'applied diversity' in dynamic practice and effect as 'deep incarnation'. Quote tweet: Why and how is the ASN Seed Increase Initiative wedding highly-diverse, deliberately architected, food-crop genepools to neighborhood-level social networks, in the seamless, positively-intensifying mutualism of a single, synergistic, unitive ecology?
Our role, the plot. Yasutami Roshi: "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." Thom Keating: "The fundamental illusion of the human condition is the notion that God is absent." Paula D'Arcy: "God comes to us disguised as our life."
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Khan: “Both observer and observed are projections of an underlying, single reality, traditionally called God. Ponder upon this thought.” Cheetham: "The fundamental unity of the faculties of human cognition and the world to which they give access is the eternal pagan substrate." 'We see the world as we are, not as it is,' is an ancient insight, common to global wisdom traditions. But oft credited to Rabbi Shemuel ben Nachmani in the Talmudic tractate, Berakhot. What truly matters? We ourselves may access the transfigurative alchemy such insight empowers. Image with calligraphy: Frankly, when you see things contemplatively, everything in the universe is a mirror. Only with this second gaze, of love, is the transformation process personally initiated and finally achieved.