@trippfuller 10/ Where both men saw each moment ripe with messianic potential and vitality, Shari'ati also conceived this "strait gate" as an immediacy opening upon and stoking dynamic, participatory, revolutionary messianic activity - a liberation from the status quo of "negative longing."
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1730036568046628951 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @SophiaCycles I'd planned on a rewrite: you got to me first! I apologize. Yes, I admit I can sound hard naming a universalist tendency I perceive, for professional contemplatives to declare the relative *primacy* of cushioned mysticism to dropping an awakened shoulder. Of course it's both/and. t.co/eifJgWBeu3
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, three May21 connected bodies Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395787272868405250 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon ...Where teachers may proffer a Zen Slap, the prophet offers up a metaphysical spanking. Where the Messiah spoke of a depth-kingdom spread out among us to which we are blind, he was speaking not only to those who sleep but to those who sit, awake, on the ontological sidelines...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, three May21 connected bodies Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395787598761582595 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon Prophetic vision is not contemplative realization out for an afternoon stroll. It derives from a capacity to access a dimension of existence accessible only through the dynamism of actualization. Contrariwise, quietistic mysticism remains at a distance from an integral ontology..
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, three May21 connected bodies Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395787763434201088 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon ...accessible only through an active, co-evolutionary engagement with the Other. The emphasis here is ‘active’ and ‘co-evolutionary’. In this light, what declares a prophet is neither recognition by others, nor a claim; rather, ontology itself...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick discussing Scholem Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of text linked to here: According to Scholem, the early Kabbalah suppressed or "neutralized" such active, restorative and apocalyptic elements within Jewish mysticism. Instead, 'non-messianic redemption' assumed prominence, suggesting that the inner life, rather than 'messianic deeds' in history, brought freedom for the captives, and liberation from the subjugation of the exiles. (We witnessed a similar historical regression within Christianity, of course. After Jesus' followers had failed to redeem the external world, how could social redemption even be defined except by turning away, inward?)
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Jim Corbett and Illich Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1716117941249511610 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @CenteringPrayer 1/ "The Prophets teach us to do as a community exactly what the Buddhas teach individuals," noted the Quaker, Jim Corbett. Similarly, Illich, "the kingdom is a [eco-]social reality at a transcendent level." Peace among us, on the move, teleologically constituting redemption.
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"There is no direct, permanent or public access to the divine. Each destiny has a unique curvature and must find its own spiritual belonging and direction. Individuality is the only gateway to spiritual potential and blessing." ~ John O'Donohue Painted abstract image of the Winged Heart, with calligraphy, "Individuation is to humans what incarnation is to a God." - David Richo