Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@EsmeLKPartridge Striking a trans-cultural, planetarian as distinct from singularly Christian note, we might say the distinction ultimately falls into irrelevancy or, in a positive dialectic, dissolves in God—that is, God-experience. Rumi: "When you look for God, God is in the look in your eyes."

The search of the ego for transcendence passes away into the transcendence itself. - Rumi
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The search of the ego for transcendence passes away into the transcendence itself. - Rumi

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 Feb 2025

@lukeburgis That second page, the cosmic elephant in the room. And yet, religious/spiritual culture is itself often no less estranged from experience or recognition of the unequivocally supernatural intelligence, power, presence and telos of the Living God, than its most cynical deprecators.

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