
Hildegard of Bingen on Emptying and the Via Negativa
Like Howard Thurman, who speaks in his book on Jesus and the Disinherited to “people with their backs against the wall,” Hildegard of Bingen teaches
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Like Howard Thurman, who speaks in his book on Jesus and the Disinherited to “people with their backs against the wall,” Hildegard of Bingen teaches

Thurman insists that emptying becomes a new source of energy, a new encounter with the Divine. It holds within it the possibility of “readying the

In light of several billionaires buying their way currently into space, we are challenging their priorities with a warning from Thomas Merton: That the far

Thurman’s experience as a wonder-filled child as well as his peoples’ experience from an African Earth-based reverence for the cosmos permeates his many rich self-disclosures.

We have been journeying with mystics who grasp the importance of connecting our inner selves (psyche) to the cosmos, and thus growing our souls. Mystics

Catholic monk Thomas Merton declared that every non two-legged creature is a saint. Furthermore, …every plant that stands in the light of the sun is a

Merton speaks out on the importance of the “act of Being.” In 1968, shortly before he died, he wrote: Afflicted as I am with an

We are meditating on the revelation of the ground of being found in creation stories from various traditions. Today, the Hebrew Bible again. Yesterday we

For the next few DMs, we will be sharing some creation stories from various traditions. Thich Nhat Hanh says that if we fail to penetrate

Silence is everywhere if we are journeying deeply. Silence is elicited in all of the Four Paths that creation spirituality names as our deep spiritual
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