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Today, December 10, is the anniversary of Thomas Merton’s entering the monastery in 1940 and also the 54th anniversary of his untimely death. About the
In this season of winter and darkness and advent, we continue our meditation with Meister Eckhart on repose, keeping in mind the Biblical statement that forms the
November 28, 2022. On Grief Work, Youth Work, and Adam Bucko’s New Book.In this meditation, in the wake of the shootings at the Colorado gay
A return to the dark is also a return to our origins. Most of us were conceived in the dark, lived our first nine months in
This time of advent and of winter and of solstice approaching affords us an invitation to enter into the darkness, the darkness of our souls
In light of the mass shooting at the gay club in Colorado Springs and other murders among college students this past week in America, we
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke underwent a very painful childhood. He was locked in the attic by his mother for long periods of time and was
I am often moved by many of the Comments to the Daily Meditations which, I try to read every day. I do not respond to them
Merton expounds on the experience of nothingness: But to each of us there is a point of nowhereness in the middle of movement, a point
In yesterday’s poem, composed from his hospital bed, Merton addresses “Eckhart’s castle.” Eckhart’s talk about the soul as a “castle” relates to the Biblical phrase,
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