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We are meditating on touching our Joy in spite of darkness and times of acedia. I offer a second concrete story here. One Fall semester I
Yesterday I responded to a letter from a psychologist who did not like my naming acedia and depression as a spiritual issue. The suggestion was that
One way to grasp a spiritual concept is to consider its opposite first. What constitutes the opposite of joy? Sadness is an opposite of joy
Rumi tells us that “the spark of the soul is not easily lit.” When one hears scientists express ecstasy and cry tears of joy and wonder,
The first chakra is the beginning of all the chakras – it is where the fire, the seed, the snake lie coiled up and ready
The “desert fathers” first developed the idea of the seven capital sins. An ancient text from the monk Evagrius calls acedia “the noonday demon” that
If acedia or apathy lies at the heart of climate denial in our culture today, as some keen observers like Lester Brown and environmental lawyers
In a previous DM, I cited Gus Speth, the environmental lawyer who came to realize that the crisis of climate change is not so much
A strong argument can be made that the primal story of our first parents’ sin is not about pride or disobedience but about acedia. Why
Healthy artists, working from a spirituality base, can awaken us to our “selfishness, greed and apathy” that were named by a scientist in the previous
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