Category: Living CS

The creation-centered mystics are all about immersing ourselves in the goodness of creation, the blessing of existence, thus immersing ourselves in the Via Positiva.  For

We are interrupting our meditations on the Via Positiva briefly to consider what role the Via Positiva plays in a time of grief and loss. 

With the anguish playing on nightly news and commentaries, and with hearts the country over broken by thirty-one unnecessary deaths in El Paso and Dayton,

Gratitude is another dimension to the Via Positiva experience.  In his encyclical “Laudato Si” Pope Francis calls for our expressing “gratitude for the gifts of

In his much acclaimed encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si,” Pope Francis constructs his argument for a healthy interaction with the Earth on the Via

We are discussing how to nurture mystics (lovers) who become prophets (warriors) to fight for the environment and for future generations of humans and millions

“Everything praises God,” says Meister Eckhart, and Heschel declares that “what we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.”  Heschel

Heschel has more, far more, to say about Wonder and Awe and therefore the Via Positiva.  Here is a sampling of his wisdom on this

Rabbi Heschel, one of the greatest religious and spiritual geniuses of the twentieth century, he who lived and walked his talk, scholar of The Prophets

I had the privilege of hearing Mary Oliver speak a couple years ago to a full house in a large San Francisco auditorium.  Near the