
Humanity: Facing Our Own Extinction, Our Own Nothingness
There are religious orders in both the East and West that make a great point about meditating on death. Often they make it a practice to
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There are religious orders in both the East and West that make a great point about meditating on death. Often they make it a practice to
Last week I saw a Nova program on PBS television called “Universe Revealed: Milky Way.” It was about the coming to be of our solar system
One thing I love about the mystics is that they take us to the edge of consciousness. They talk about the “All” and how “isness is
Cynicism and acedia, as we saw yesterday, are dangerous misdirections of our first chakras. What is the medicine for cynicism, sourness, uncaring and acedia? Another way
There is such a thing as political nothingness and today, with a politicized SCOTUS, a supreme court nothingness. A Supreme Court reducing American jurisprudence to nothing, pulverizing the
This year’s 4th of July Celebration feels more like Hong Kong’s 50th anniversary remembrance this weekend than it does like previous fourth of July celebrations over the
Merton talks about Eckhart’s “Christian doctrine of creation” in which he recognizes that the distinction between Creator and creature does not have the last word. “A
The experience of Nothingness can happen alongside the experience of the divine spark. The Via Positiva and Negativa often dance side by side. The darkness of
Clearly, in our recent daily meditations, Eckhart is urging us to become the light, the light of Christ, the light of God, the light of
We are following Eckhart as he attempts to name the ineffable depths and actions of our souls. Indeed, he warns us that no one can
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