Emptiness and Work
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
August 1, 2025
Recently, I led a weekend-long workshop on the themes of Matthew Fox’s book The Reinvention of Work. Among the high moments of the event, I
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Merton and the Via Negativa
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 28, 2025
“To each of us there is a point of nowhereness in the middle of movement, a point of nothingness in the midst of being: the
Winter Solstice, 2022: The Apophatic and Uncreated God
Matthew Fox
December 21, 2022
If God is the uncreated one, then we cannot know God since everything we know is created and has received its existence from other existences.
Winter, Advent and Honoring the Dark
Matthew Fox
December 2, 2022
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
Silence Invites in the God of Nothingness, continued
Matthew Fox
August 16, 2022
The psalmist advises us to “Be still and learn that I am God.” Silence is a kind of nothingness, an emptiness, a zero—what Thomas Merton
Silence as a Practice of Nothingness
Matthew Fox
August 15, 2022
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
God as Nothingness
Matthew Fox
August 13, 2022
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
Merton & Eckhart on Nothingness & Solitude
Matthew Fox
August 12, 2022
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
Meditations on Nothingness Experiences, continued
Matthew Fox
August 10, 2022
In recent DMs, we meditated on the rendering of nothingness that humans are capable of such as Hiroshima and climate change and the once Supreme
Speaking of Nothingness: The Supreme Court as a Nothingburger
Matthew Fox
August 8, 2022
The current Supreme Court has devolved into a vile experience of Political Nothingness. Political hacks and religious quacks have reduced it to an intellectual joke and
