Eliah Ruan

Life, poetry, consciousness

[Eliah Ruan @EliahRuan]

@VJMPub @_CLancellotti The orthodox position rejects directly the idea of a "checklist" religion. Salvation is not about following a rigid set of bureaucratic rules as it is about a therapeutic healing of the soul. This is why Christ is sometimes called the physician.

[Eliah Ruan @EliahRuan]

@VJMPub @_CLancellotti Freedom, love, and truth pursued with humility is already most of the way. Christianity before it was known as Christianity was first known as The Way. And ways are meant to be lived not just believed.

[Eliah Ruan @EliahRuan]

@VJMPub @_CLancellotti The particular texts you chose are suspected from many scholars as not actually being from Paul but a later anonymous composer, while the ones directly attributed to Paul have quotes of the nature I just shared. One of reasons they think the others are not Paul is the contrast.

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@VJMPub @_CLancellotti In Philemon the entire letter is about a runaway slave named Onesimus. Paul sends him back to his master, Philemon, but commands Philemon to receive him "no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother."

[Eliah Ruan @EliahRuan]

You knows what’s an interesting practice that I feels helps open me up, I allow myself to be open to opportunities where my heart feels kinship with someone and then I send them a blessing with my heart.

I allow it to be both natural, but also tended.

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@evilhomer91 @jarvis_best Why would a store with working self checkouts want a greater percentage of their revenue gone from the 10%?

[Eliah Ruan @EliahRuan]

Let your voice become transparent enough that reality can sing through it in a way only this life could

[Eliah Ruan @EliahRuan]

@way_opener Looks like a fall for more words then

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@matt_olma The less constrained system gives rise to the more constrained system. But the more constrained system can have more articulation than the less constrained system And can thus open movements not before possible.

[Eliah Ruan @EliahRuan]

@matt_olma Potentiality stirs because perfect freedom cannot not include the stirring, perspective precipitates law, law recurses into ground, ground tends by being, and knows by flowering.

[Eliah Ruan @EliahRuan]

@_ueaj For example, the “cloud of unknowing”. And its correlates in other traditions.

[Eliah Ruan @EliahRuan]

@_ueaj This is not to diminish what you are saying, I’m all for immanence. But perhaps consider that constraining perception of what lays beyond the visible to chemistry, is a limitation not justified. There are broader expanses. And that is why many traditions begin with releasing.