@BretVDB Poets never really let roses remain botanical. Within the Abrahamic fold, Silesian or Sufi, sooner or later rose gardens end up looking like world resurrection rehearsals. Here, art from the Food Not Lawns avant-gardening collective in 2001. The line, from John Hall Wheelock.
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Image of rose and cross with text reading "Equally her beauty flows into a Savior or a rose."
![4/ However, once we accept the mirror of existence as belonging to us as much as our skin and bones, once we resacralize personal experience itself as a totality, allowing the apparent divisions between inside and outside, self and other, psyche and world, heaven and earth...
5/ ...between our individual autobiographies and the story of the cosmos, to dissolve in the fire of Clement's 'single, living being’ - the One Body of the Cosmic Christ - so we are freed to the One Life, the fullness of God in this, our world. How could it happen any other way?
[Image of rose contained in fire]
And all shall be well
All manner of things shall be well
When the tongues of flames
are in-folded
into the crowned knot of fire
and the fire and the rose
are one.
-T.S. Eliot
“A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.” - #Teilhard de Chardin](/media/2032134286934163934-HDOXWzObgAAzvWE.jpg)
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4/ However, once we accept the mirror of existence as belonging to us as much as our skin and bones, once we resacralize personal experience itself as a totality, allowing the apparent divisions between inside and outside, self and other, psyche and world, heaven and earth... 5/ ...between our individual autobiographies and the story of the cosmos, to dissolve in the fire of Clement's 'single, living being’ - the One Body of the Cosmic Christ - so we are freed to the One Life, the fullness of God in this, our world. How could it happen any other way? [Image of rose contained in fire] And all shall be well All manner of things shall be well When the tongues of flames are in-folded into the crowned knot of fire and the fire and the rose are one. -T.S. Eliot “A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.” - #Teilhard de Chardin
@pauljpastor Ah, a rose cutting with a canon attached. Proposing a new category: the Rosarian literary-horticultural flex. ?s=20
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