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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
Two days ago in our daily meditations, we spoke of how winter and the darkness “contain their own wisdom and lessons, one of which is silence
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 our recent daily meditations, we have been praising and therefore thanking Earth and Air, Fire and Water. As Thomas Berry put it in a recent
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
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