Breathing – part 1
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
April 29, 2026
I get so frustrated these days by the state of the world that I ask myself what it means to go back to the basics
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Dorothy Day on Love & Action as a Harsh & Dreadful Thing
Matthew Fox
March 5, 2026
Dorothy wrote about her experience in solitary confinement in prison for doing non-violent disobedience. She reminds us that suffering can open us up so we
Saints I have Known, continued
Matthew Fox
August 2, 2025
In Tuesday’s DM, I named some saints I have known and worked with and promised that discussion would be continued. Why is it a good
Eckhart, Thich Nhat Hanh, Hildegard on God as Ground of Being
Matthew Fox
March 22, 2023
We have been meditating on how God is Being and how holy being is. The Book of Acts recalls the earliest days of Christianity and cites
Teilhard de Chardin on Non-Dualism, continued
Matthew Fox
January 28, 2023
Beginning with Dr. King’s teaching that dualism is a “strange” and unbiblical” teaching, we have since his birthday been focusing on his and Chenu’s and
More of Teilhard’s Non-Dualism
Matthew Fox
January 27, 2023
The late Buddhist monk and saint Thich Nhat Hanh promises that “the valuable jewels in the Christian tradition will be rediscovered” when it rediscovers “non-duality.” This
Apophatic Divinity, continued
Matthew Fox
December 22, 2022
In this dark season of the year that is also Advent that leads into Christmas in the Christian calendar, we are meditating on the Apophatic
Putin’s Hyper-Masculinity, the Irish Fishing Fleet & St. Brigid
Matthew Fox
February 1, 2022
I wrote this DM two days ago and now it seems the Irish fishermen won. I am sharing it as I wrote it then since
Thich Nhat Hanh & Thomas Aquinas on Joy
Matthew Fox
January 31, 2022
As we all know, Thich Naht Hanh did not have an easy life. The Viet Nam war was not easy for anyone in Vietnam and
Thich Nhat Hanh & Emeritus Pope Cardinal Ratzinger
Matthew Fox
January 30, 2022
My personal story with Thich Nhat Hanh that I shared last week included a very negative encounter he had with the Vatican. In meditating on
