RT @nick_routledge: @Plough @alex_e_davis Surely, being a Jesus follower is to become a paean, enfleshed, to inconvenience. Eckhart, Merton, Day, Chittister—all say the same strange thing: the wound is also the door. Walk toward disquiet. That locus is where the world's flight from cost meets love, and the Kingdom made.
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Copy of tweet here: 1/7 The hermaneutic, deeply vexing, though, isn't it? How on earth do we sensibly communicate an experience of the staggering meaningfulness and plenitude of a Depth Realm conceived and experienced only through an obedience to love turning the world upside down? (Acts 17:6) Tweet: 22/ The "cross" is not a pious outlier but the cruciform "madness" of self-emptying love. Wherever it is embodied—whatever the tradition or form—the edge shifts, becoming a site of a new creation within a different physics of freedom: the messianic Kingdom breaking into history. 5/ This introduces genuinely novel powers that have no prior place in the world's causal economy, judging both our social arrangements and our theological language, radically reordering practice and theory. Life and doctrine become grist for transfiguration, not rival claimants.
@lukeburgis 10/ This is where neighborliness is forged, not assumed—a harvest ripened not in shared ideology but in the hard resolve to remain when everything in us longs to flee. It is dirty work—messy, humbling, costly. Gibran: "When loving your neighbors is easy it ceases to be a virtue."
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Thurman and Trungpa Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: As for reconciliatory alchemy Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1506410891989770243 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Zen_Moments As for reconciliatory alchemy? Thurman: “Enlightenment is not a simplified state. Not at all. It is the supreme tolerance of cognitive dissonance.” And Trungpa, “The chaos that takes place in your neurosis is the only home ground that you can build the mandala of awakening on.” t.co/Y5EMQg4eLF
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Chittister and O'Donohue Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Countless Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1506416806256263170 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Zen_Moments Countless, of course, are the ways to describe “the fullness of the self come to birth the only way it really can: in labor and trial.” – Chittister. And O’Donohue: “The fire-path of suffering, the final gathering place of all the ideas and intentions of Jesus.” Peace, alive.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Ezra Bayda Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Of course Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1471326753004003335 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @BandyXLee1 Of course, “when we finally allow ourselves to be with what we'd rather avoid - which is simply not feeling good - then our very drama becomes the path to freedom.” - #EzraBayda t.co/xTFq7ZHlcn
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Rilke Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Rilke Duino Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1401223328048705538 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @KathySaranpa Rilke, Duino Elegies: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.”
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Auden Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Life destiny Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1470149388831891456 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @SophiaCycles “Life is the destiny you are bound to refuse until you have consented to die.” - Auden
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