jeff miller

A prophet has a responsibility for the moment, an openness to what the moment reveals. He is a person who knows what time it is.  
—Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets

The Dazzling Darkness of Unknowing

https://cac.org/daily-meditations/the-dazzling-darkness-of-unknowing/

Dionysius the Areopagite speaks of the

“brilliant darkness” that one enters “through not seeing and not knowing.”

Gregory of Nyssa refers to this as the

“seeing that consists of not seeing.”

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see,”

says Theodore Roethke

The real tension isn't AI vs. human.

It is default vs. deliberate.

The best writing has always come from humans willing to slow down and make intentional choices. 

—Ann Handley

On an internet increasingly written by AI,

a truly human sentence hits different.

—The Atlantic

Amma Syncletica said, "There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in the town, and they are wasting their time.

It is possible to be a solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd,

and it is possible for one who is a solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts."

Benedicta Ward, trans., The Sayings of the Desert Fath

Wisdom teaching: When we trust in the process and give ourselves over to it, our authentic self comes forth.

The result is real integrity, love, authenticity, creativity, understanding, guidance, joy, power, and serenity.

(Understanding the Enneagram, 365)