Silence as a Practice of Nothingness
In yesterday’s DM we considered the apophatic side of Divinity, the limits of language to name the Great Mystery or what Eckhart called “the ocean
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In yesterday’s DM we considered the apophatic side of Divinity, the limits of language to name the Great Mystery or what Eckhart called “the ocean
Eckhart says: “Reason can never comprehend God in the ocean of his unfathomableness.” Do these words teach you something of the mystery that Divinity is? God as
The Apophatic God is the God of darkness and silence and namelessness. God is therefore another expression of Nothingness who bursts the limits of human apprehension
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
We are calling on mystics of old to sit with us as we drink in the first stars and first galaxies arriving from our universe
We have been meditating on the wonder of the universe as being seen through the eyes of the Webb telescope. How have mystics over the
“The Beyond” features prominently in mystic Otto Rank’s understanding of the human condition. Says Rank: “The individual is not just striving for survival but is reaching for
The late Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement, used to say that “there’s more good than evil in the world—but not by
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
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