Via Positiva & Via Negativa Intertwining
Matthew Fox
August 28, 2019
Beginning a few meditations back, we interrupted our Via Positiva essays to deal somewhat with the bad news that was bearing in on us from
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Additional Actions to Take
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Amazon Forest Crisis
Matthew Fox
August 27, 2019
The Via Negativa instructs us to let go and let be. Thus we learn how to move from no-action to action but an action born
What Can We Do In Response to the Amazon Catastrophe?
Matthew Fox
August 26, 2019
We are considering the suffering in the Amazon forest and how best to respond to it. Small farmer and poet mystic and prophet Wendell Berry
While the Amazon Rainforest Burns….
Matthew Fox
August 25, 2019
Deepak Chapra has written that Evil will be the Number One issue in spirituality of the 21st century.* We consider homicide evil; and genocide very
The Via Positiva and the Bible, Part Two
Matthew Fox
August 24, 2019
We continue to explore just a few of the numerous passages in the Scriptures that sing of the Via Positiva. Consider the following: “It was
The Via Positiva and the Bible, Part One
Matthew Fox
August 23, 2019
The Scriptures abound with news of the Via Positiva! Just a few examples from the Hebrew Bible follow: “God saw everything that God had made,
Thurman on the Via Positiva
Matthew Fox
August 22, 2019
Howard Thurman, the spiritual elder and genius behind the civil rights movement, was a profound mystic as well as a prophet. From his childhood days,
Cynicism: Living Without a Via Positiva
Matthew Fox
August 21, 2019
Meister Eckhart teaches that “a good person praises good people.” A cynic praises no one. A cynical view of life banishes goodness, is not even
Hildegard on the Power of Remembering the Via Positiva and Divine Goodness
Matthew Fox
August 20, 2019
The other day we saw two visions from Hildegard of the Via Positiva. We ended that meditation with her naming the struggle to keep the
As We Reach a Milestone, Some Thoughts
Matthew Fox
August 19, 2019
Today marks the 100th Daily Meditations in our series. Thanks to all those who are assisting and all those who are reading and meditating! A
