Thomas Merton, a Humorous Saint
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 31, 2025
Working on Merton and the four paths of Creation Spirituality during the whole week, I realized in a new way how accomplished he was. While
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Merton and the Via Transformativa
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 30, 2025
During his lifetime, the social and political writings of Thomas Merton caused a ruckus in the Catholic Church and in public opinion at large. No
Merton and the Via Creativa
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 29, 2025
Thomas Merton is without any doubt one of the most creative individuals that the Earth has seen. His listening to the prompts of the Spirit
Merton and the Via Negativa
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 28, 2025
“To each of us there is a point of nowhereness in the middle of movement, a point of nothingness in the midst of being: the
Merton and the Via Positiva
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 27, 2025
“Contemplation is the highest expression of man’s intellectual and spiritual life. It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is
“The deepest ground of my being is love”
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 26, 2025
Thomas Merton was a Roman Catholic monk and writer who died rather young in 1968, in suspicious circumstances. He was in Bangkok, Thailand, at that
Fighting the Dragon at the Time of the Black Jaguar
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 24, 2025
In the Preface that he wrote ten years ago to the revised edition of Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh, Matthew makes reference
Personal and Political
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 23, 2025
Working on the seven capital sins and the seven chakras has brought to my attention once again that spirituality is intensely personal and political at
Envy vs. Community
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 22, 2025
Journeying up from the fourth to the seventh chakra, we have been dealing with lighter and subtler energies, it seems to me. If we follow
Rationalism and Reductionism vs. Intuition and Creativity
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 21, 2025
The sixth chakra concerns our “third eye,” intuition, and the bringing together of our left and right hemisphere of the brain in creativity. This is,
