"One who has given up conceit has no ties, the ties of conceit are all cleared away." 1/3 Arahanta Sutta
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1/2 And on those grounds, I'm fond of understanding our words and concepts as "poems," not to be taken literally, but to be engaged with as prompts to go and look back towards that which they gesture. Or, as the Christian contemplative theologian Gregory of Nyssa portrayed it:
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2/2 "the mighty David became intoxicated & went out of himself: he saw while in ecstasy, that divine beauty which no mortal can behold, & cried out in those famous words: 'Every man is a liar' [Ps.116:11], thus giving us some hint of that ineffable treasure." (On the Canticle)
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