
Heschel & Hildegard on Thanksgiving, Praise & What It Means to be Human
It seems to me that Rabbi Abraham Heschel offers a deep insight into this most important question: “What does it mean to be human?” Heschel
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It seems to me that Rabbi Abraham Heschel offers a deep insight into this most important question: “What does it mean to be human?” Heschel

Dualism is the basis of all war. It creates either/or thinking. Subject/object thinking is necessary for carrying on wars. Mysticism is non-dualism. Julian of Norwich invented the word oneing. How

Hildegard calls Christ “green wood” and green man. We are all called to be green men and women today. If we are not, we are neither

In their classic work, The Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earth, English photographer Clive Hicks and poet William Anderson teamed up to bring

To talk of divinization and the Cosmic Christ is to talk of the numinosity in all things. And meaning. And creativity. The inherent creativity and “intelligence” of

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

Two days ago in our daily meditations, we spoke of how winter and the darkness “contain their own wisdom and lessons, one of which is silence

Yesterday we considered some teachings from the Jewish tradition about how animals are teachers of spirituality. We need wisdom and spiritual teachings today as individuals and as communities. So

Those who dismiss Webb Telescope as “pretty pictures” ought to explore its meaning more deeply. First, they should consider what Thomas Aquinas says about nature

When Hildegard tells us that angels “praise the good works of humanity,” as she did in yesterday’s DM, I think Hildegard means that humanity represents
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