
Meister Eckhart on Extrovert Meditation
Eckhart does not get trapped in the contemplation vs. action dualistic dilemma. He also endorses art as meditation, which is centering by way of giving birth.
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Eckhart does not get trapped in the contemplation vs. action dualistic dilemma. He also endorses art as meditation, which is centering by way of giving birth.

Continuing our discussion on “art as meditation, the way of the prophets,” Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, connects imagination to the prophetic role when

Eckhart insists that it is better to bear fruit than merely to receive God. “It is good for a person to receive God into himself

M. C. Richards tells the story of being at a beach in North Carolina and awakening to racism when she saw segregation at the water

In her now classic book, Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person, potter M. C. Richards offers us a near-Bible on Art as Meditation.

Rabbi Heschel teaches that the prophet speaks not from an inner peace and calmness (the introvert way) but “charged with agitation, anguish, and a spirit

I am meeting more and more young adults these days telling me they feel called to be “prophets” in this time of Earth crisis. If

We launched our Daily Meditations on Mother’s Day and called for a less anthropocentric view of the holiday, urging a Mother Earth consciousness since the

Art as meditation is the primary form of prayer in the creation-centered tradition, and to practice and undergo it opens the door to the praxis

These Daily Meditations are happening because science and the United Nations are telling us that we have twelve years left to change our ways as
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