Author: Paradise Thinking

#GoodFriday #reminds us of the #paradox that #embodiment always #succeeds and that embodiment always #fails. #Brain and #body are the #cross of #mind and #soul; the cross is the point of #irreconcilable #intersectionbetween #materiality and its #other. 

It reminds us that the #sentence of the #universe begins with a #period, then #unfolds through a sequence of #inconceivable punctuations, a web of #dashes and #crosses between #stories and #worlds. And it recalls the intransigent pointness of the cross as punctuation.

#commitment – How much do you really have and to what? How much of it is an #echo of the #moral#recognition that commitment is something you are #supposed to #have rather than a #true#resounding from the #inside? When and where do you #expressand #enact your #commitments, and to what #extent?

Merely and simply to say that the #cloud of #unknowing is an #essential#read. #bookstagram – #cloudofunknowing– #essentialreading – #spirituality

What is it to me, if someone doesn’t #understand? Let even the one who says #whatisthishave #joy. Let him have joy even in #saying it, and let him #love#findingyou through not finding you out, rather than not find you by #trying to find you out. – #Augustine

God’sGrandeur

The #world is charged with the #grandeur of #God. 
It will flame out, like #shining from shook foil; 
It gathers to a #greatness, like the ooze of oil 
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? 
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; 
And all is seared with #trade; bleared, smeared with #toil; 
And wears man’s #smudge and shares man’s smell: the #soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. 

And for all this, #nature is never spent; 
There lives the #dearest #freshnessdeep down things; 
And though the last lights off the black West went 
Oh, #morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the #HolyGhost over the bent 
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright #wings.

– Gerard Manley Hopkins

What do you do if…you are #neither#neurodiverse nor #neurotypical? Not #introvert or #extrovert or #ambivert? Instead of turned #inward or #outward, all sorts of #unnamable#otherwards? #Polyvert? #Multivert? Not on any #spectrum at all but in ever more #direct#encounter with an #unnamed#hybrid of both #engagement and #expression to #incommensurable#Spirit (for lack of a better word)? #What then? What #next?

The #seeming #choice #between #being of this #world or merely in it. Can we not take a #monent to #pause and #intend? Not #multitasking or #sliding from one thing to another but filling the#intervals between #actions with #intent towards #betterness… #paradisethinking

How many #people have you #helped#today or #thisweek?” Maybe you did something directly #helpful. Maybe you helped someone #connect with someone else in a way that would benefit them both. Maybe you simply #showedup in an interaction more #intentionally – #present, #listening, and #engaged. We often take our roles as #helpers for granted, but thinking of helping #consciously makes us #better at what we do, while making the #worldaround us better, too. #betterworld – #paradisethinking

With a #greater#active#orientation than #care and a #lesser#cruelty than #dominion, #stewardship#serves as a #committed#disposition of our #responsibility to #others and the #planet. One might also consider it an alternate translation of the #newtestament term #kyrios without the medieval political overtones of #Lord, although that word, too comes more from origins of #caretaking than mere #dominance.

#Courage is not an #absence of #fear but rather a #commitment to #act#despite fear. Similarly, #faith is not an absence of #doubt but a commitment to #believe despite doubt.