RT @nick_routledge: @ChurchLifeND O’Regan calls faith “innocence regained” amid tragedy. Under grace, betrayal may become its dark initiation: an advance beyond primal trust, shattering fantasies of exemption from tragedy and opening us to a second innocence—mature faith without illusion, capable of forgiveness.
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James Hillman suggests that betrayal is an archetypal experience which is the chief instrument of individuation. There is something transformative in recognising how our fantasies of life and love prevent us from growing up and becoming full members of the human family~Liz Greene Hillman: "For Gabriel Marcel, betrayal is evil itself. For Jean Genet, according to Sartre, betrayal is the greatest evil, as “the evil which does evil to itself”. When experiences have this bite to them, we assume an archetypal background. blacksunjournal.com/psychology/18_…
@SophiaCycles Wallace Stevens: "In the imperfect is our paradise." Liz Greene: "Harmony is inclusive. Perfection is exclusive." @RichardRohrOFM: “The search for a supposed perfection is the most common enemy of simple goodness." And Cixous: "Saying yes to the axe blow of every moment."
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