Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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2/ But on any path that truly matters, we walk the very threshold where atrophied structures of self, meaning, and sanity actually break. When the Real presses in, our familiar defenses start to burn: control, self-importance, buried grief, unintegrated trauma, pictures of God.

Copy of tweet here: An intensification of consciousness, yes. And may we have the wisdom to appreciate its necessity as an index of our need for transformation and the fierceness of the fire required to prise us from the falsehoods which have for so long sustained our crippling self-definition.
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Copy of tweet here: An intensification of consciousness, yes. And may we have the wisdom to appreciate its necessity as an index of our need for transformation and the fierceness of the fire required to prise us from the falsehoods which have for so long sustained our crippling self-definition.

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Quoted by17/ The insight often requires that the current frame is already burdensome—frustration, exhaustion, active denial of what we're experiencing. The scaffolding is stressed—its predictions fail, its costs compound, its contradictions press—before one more straw triggers collapse.