Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@lukeburgis Well stated. I'm consistently astonished by how little I know (isn't that the redemptive dimension of epiphanic experience?) and by how much my integrity depends on sharing with that in mind. Illich would perhaps aver humility the experiential substrate of messianic experience.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 24 Aug 2023

@Rishardtrading @EsmeLKPartridge Werner Heisenberg: "Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows." Mark Epstein: "What I had learned from Buddhism was that I did not have to know myself analytically as much as I had to tolerate not knowing."

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7/ "...The great equalizers dispensed by the scientific method are the tools, those analytical tools. The miracle of genius is replaced by the standardization mechanism. But fools with tools are still fools, and don't let your Phi Beta Kappa key fool you."
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Copy of tweet: 7/ "...The great equalizers dispensed by the scientific method are the tools, those analytical tools. The miracle of genius is replaced by the standardization mechanism. But fools with tools are still fools, and don't let your Phi Beta Kappa key fool you."

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"The major heresy of the Western churches is that they have largely turned the very meaning of faith into its exact opposite. True faith involves not knowing and even not needing to know, but we made faith demanding to know and insisting that we do know!" @RichardRohrOFM
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Copy of tweet: "The major heresy of the Western churches is that they have largely turned the very meaning of faith into its exact opposite. True faith involves not knowing and even not needing to know, but we made faith demanding to know and insisting that we do know!" @RichardRohrOFM

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