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We are talking about the Four Paths and about how we begin our spiritual lives—and renew them—with the Via Positiva–which is so often dismissed or
There lies a special relationship between the Via Negativa—feeling of pain and grief including that of Mother Earth—and the Via Transformativa. The best worker of
In a recent Public Letter prepared for the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation,” Pope Francis addressed all people of good will
In discussing the Via Positiva, we considered Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si” which dealt with it in considerable depth and breadth. (See the meditations on
Science has a profound role to play in awakening us anew to the Via Positiva today. (Of course it plays a primary role in the
During the industrial revolution the captains of industry complained about “sloth,” as the deadly sin of acedia was translated at that time. They considered anyone
Twenty-seven years ago it was my privilege to deliver a Schumacher Society Lecture in Bristol, England at a conference whose theme was “The Environmental Revolution.”
The late Catholic monk Thomas Merton (who died a martyr for peace in 1968), said that “today wisdom begins with sorrow.” Can we so accept
What is happening in the Amazon with the deliberate setting of fires is a desecration. A murder of Nature’s Sacred Temple to make money for
Reading Hildegard of Bingen’s term “Original Wisdom” or Julian of Norwich’s “Original Goodness,” one is reminded of “Original Blessing” that a number of years back
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