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We are considering Eckhart’s teaching that every human is “born from the intimate depths of the divine nature and the divine wilderness” and is therefore
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We are considering Eckhart’s teaching that every human is “born from the intimate depths of the divine nature and the divine wilderness” and is therefore

As I shared in my video accompanying yesterday’s Daily Meditation, Meister Eckhart devotes a lengthy treatise to the topic of our royal personhood applying it

Yesterday we considered the teaching of Père Chenu that spirituality can be understood as “our true nobility.” How meditating on that can be good medicine in

October 29, 2023: Good News in Times of War: We Are Capable of Compassion (Aquinas)Matthew reviews Thomas Aquinas’s definition of compassion, “To be compassionate is

We find ourselves in the midst of four wars that are raging. The war in Ukraine; the war in the Middle East; the war against democracy

Living in a time of war and wars, it behooves us to get a bigger perspective. An awareness of history helps with that, as does an

Today is All Saints Day in the Christian tradition. Tomorrow, as you read it, will be All Souls Day. Together they have lessons to teach us

Yesterday we shared good news from the program All Things Considered that invited an Imam and a rabbi to interact on the current war in Gaza and

We are meditating on our species’ capacity for compassion. Meister Eckhart says, “What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens

In the midst of war — war in Gaza and Israel, war in Ukraine, and constant preparations for war around the world — it behooves
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