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We have been talking about the shadow side of the 7th chakra whereby humans make decisions not to build community but to unravel it, to replace
One lesson I learned from writing my book on Evil is this: The opposite of evil is not the good, but the Sacred. This means that we cannot have a
I was deeply moved by the song “Grateful: A Love Song to the World” in yesterday’s DM and I thank Phila Hoopes, one of our
In his book, Conjectures from a Guilty Bystander, Merton offers this testimony to wonder and awe. I stepped out of the north wing of the monastery and
For me, the sense of wonder is synonymous with the Via Positiva. In the Via Positiva we are struck by awe—like Rachel Carson and her 20
We meditated yesterday on the potential that mind-expansion has to turn the ugly to the beautiful and to steer the powerful energy of anger into
We are trying these days to pray the news, including the very bad and ugly and evil news of Putin’s war in Ukraine. This includes “walking our
Yesterday we invoked the poet and mystic Rainer Rilke along with Julian of Norwich and other mystics about the profound relationship of both lamentation and
Rainer Maria Rilke, whom Robert Bly used to call “the greatest poet of the last 500 years,” gives us useful and profound advice for living
In spite of the struggle toward survival of the fittest, can joy reign? Aquinas offers a clear and blunt answer to this big question. He
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