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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel instructs us that “Praise precedes faith.” To practice faith—any faith tradition—we need to bring the experience of praise to the table. That is
Further spiritual lessons that animals share with us include the following: That climbing Jacob’s ladder is unnatural. Have you ever known an animal (other than
Yesterday we considered some teachings from the Jewish tradition about how animals are teachers of spirituality. We need wisdom and spiritual teachings today as individuals and as communities. So
To commit to Joy and Justice and Celebration, as Barbara Ehrenreich does, is to commit to Compassion. As Meister Eckhart tells us, “what happens to another, whether it
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
We are meditating with Meister Eckhart, invoking his deep sense of our relationship to the cosmos, psyche and cosmos are linked together. This is especially
In a time of the Webb Telescope beaming light and pictures of the first galaxies into our living rooms, we might ask what would the
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,
To meditate on one’s own mortality is not always an easy thing to do—but it is very necessary in order to live life fully and
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