
Silence as a Practice of Nothingness
In yesterday’s DM we considered the apophatic side of Divinity, the limits of language to name the Great Mystery or what Eckhart called “the ocean
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In yesterday’s DM we considered the apophatic side of Divinity, the limits of language to name the Great Mystery or what Eckhart called “the ocean

Eckhart says: “Reason can never comprehend God in the ocean of his unfathomableness.” Do these words teach you something of the mystery that Divinity is? God as

The Apophatic God is the God of darkness and silence and namelessness. God is therefore another expression of Nothingness who bursts the limits of human apprehension

Merton expounds on the experience of nothingness: But to each of us there is a point of nowhereness in the middle of movement, a point

In yesterday’s poem, composed from his hospital bed, Merton addresses “Eckhart’s castle.” Eckhart’s talk about the soul as a “castle” relates to the Biblical phrase,

In recent DMs, we meditated on the rendering of nothingness that humans are capable of such as Hiroshima and climate change and the once Supreme

The Supreme Court has become a Nothing. No one will look to it any more for a balanced or sane pronouncement on the law and rule

The current Supreme Court has devolved into a vile experience of Political Nothingness. Political hacks and religious quacks have reduced it to an intellectual joke and

We have a current concept in our culture applicable to political nothingness when we invoke the word “nothingburger.” A nothingburger seems to be a promised meal

We have been meditating on some of the many meanings of Nothingness. Today, August 6, 2022, is the 77th anniversary of the nothingness rendered by the atomic
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