Yoga. Sun. The sea. And four days of inspired sharing by a cross-cultural body of spiritual leaders. As he prepares to leave the Yoga for Peace Symposium on “Activating a Global Shift,” Matthew Fox offers a three-part series of meditations inspired by the insights he’d received.
Original Beauty, Wisdom, and Blessing
A Universe Born of Joy
We Are Words of God
Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina, or “Divine Reading,”is the ancient practice of meditatively and prayerfully reading the words of Scripture or other sacred texts, asking Spirit what your proper response might be to the truths they lay bare.
In this spirit, take a phrase or word from this meditation and be still with it, letting it wash over you and through and through you. Repeat it as a mantra. Be with the silence that follows. Be with, be with….
Recommended Reading
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
In this book Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology). Here Fox lays out the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
The 365 writings in Christian Mystics represent a wide-ranging sampling of these readings for modern-day seekers of all faiths — or no faith. The visionaries quoted range from Julian of Norwich to Martin Luther King, Jr., from Thomas Merton to Dorothee Soelle and Thomas Berry.
2 thoughts on “Original Beauty, Joy, & <br>the Sacred OM”
Oooom, I love these meditations….the Kingdom is within us all….Love wins every time. Thank you.
Ann, Thank you for your affirmation. We hope you continue to find key phrases for your own contemplation in our Daily Meditations.