
Merton and the Via Positiva
“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
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“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

Aquinas, like most indigenous and pre-modern thinkers, and unlike the human-centered philosophers of the modern and industrial era, begins his philosophy with the universe. Our

Aquinas connects joy to consciousness when he says, “God is supremely joyful and therefore supremely conscious.” Is that your experience too, that consciousness and joy

Maybe one reason we humans are bad at governing and being governed is that we ignore our inner lives, our interior lives, the relation between
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