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Human survival today requires the survival of the rich biodiversity of Mother Earth. Both require that we recognize goodness with fresh eyes, grateful eyes just
Julian’s first advice about surviving a pandemic is not to deny the suffering that accompanies it. No denial! But her second advice and medicine for
I think the subject of Thanks should be on our minds and hearts daily. In many ways Thanks is another word for the Via Positiva.
This Thanksgiving, with so many challenges besetting us from Climate Change and its deniers, from Impeachment revelations, from hostility toward asylum seekers at the borders,
It being Thanksgiving Eve, it seemed to me that a meditation on God who is often called the “giver of gifts” seems in order. So
Thomas Merton is very attuned to the Via Positiva. Consider this passage from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander: “I stepped out of the north wing
Meister Eckhart is thoroughly marinated in the Via Positiva (but immersed in the other three paths as well). A brief example of his VP teachings
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
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
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