RT @nick_routledge: @TheaEuryphaessa Among others, Universal Sufis place a core emphasis on practices focused precisely upon this somatic, psycho-spiritual nexus of experience. "It is not the light one sees that is important, it is the way this light awakens our realization that is important." - Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Sri Yantra, acrylic inks on paper, with calligraphy reading: "There is a point where physical light becomes insight. The light that can be seen becomes the light that sees. Recognize that point. It is where you realize your celestial consciousness instead of your physical consciousness." - Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
@TheaEuryphaessa Isn't he wonderful? The world's wisdom traditions likewise acknowledge this particular locus of personal, moment-to-moment experience (literally, as close as the light in one's eyes) as a deceptively simple pivot-point for awakening into life, and aim supportive practices at it.
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Copy of tweet here: A disturbance representing a/the primary quotidian trigger and locus for refining ourselves in the divine image? Dogen: "When the Self advances to confirm the ten thousand things, that is delusion. When the ten thousand things advance to confirm the self, that is realization.” “Observance of the soul can be deceptively simple. You take back what has been disowned. You work with what is, rather than what you wish were there." Thomas Moore Quote tweet: '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.