Further Recovering of a Sense of the Sacred
Matthew Fox
September 28, 2024
Holiness and the sacred applies to plants and to trees and to stars, as Thomas Merton sees it: Every plant that stands in the light
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More Thoughts on Recovering a Sense of the Sacred
Matthew Fox
September 27, 2024
A few Daily Meditations ago, we meditated on Recovering a Sense of the Sacred and I invoked Thomas Berry’s rich thoughts about beginning with the
Heschel, Eckhart, Merton on Beholding
Matthew Fox
May 31, 2024
Yesterday we meditated on Rabbi Heschel’s invitation to “behold in order to stand face to face with the beauty and grandeur of the universe.” Meister
The Christian Right & Thomas Merton on American Idolatry
Matthew Fox
January 20, 2024
In yesterday’s DM we considered the rise of billionaire media moguls with their agendas for a post-democracy America. Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, David Smith (the
Replacing Dualism & War with Non-dualism, Interdependence, Compassion
Matthew Fox
November 17, 2023
Dualism is the basis of all war. It creates either/or thinking. Subject/object thinking is necessary for carrying on wars. Mysticism is non-dualism. Julian of Norwich invented the word oneing. How
Eckhart, Suzuki, Merton on Truth, Formlessness & the Original Mind
Matthew Fox
March 9, 2023
Yesterday we considered the understanding of God as our “ground” and how we can, in Julian’s words, access divinity and our true selves by “digging
Julian of Norwich, Eckhart, Merton, Suzuki on Digging for Truth
Matthew Fox
March 8, 2023
Yesterday we meditated on the need to dig deep to get to our true self. Sometimes suffering is a gateway to truth. Julian of Norwich
Merton, Eckhart & the Search for Our True & Deeper Selves, continued
Matthew Fox
March 7, 2023
Human beings have to dig and work at finding our deep and true self. If we do not, we live superficially out of fear or greed
Thomas Merton and the Search for Our True Selves
Matthew Fox
March 6, 2023
Addressing the avalanche of lies that pass for news on a certain cable news station recently, we have invoked the centrality of the search for
On the Cosmic Christ in Early Christianity
Matthew Fox
February 15, 2023
I ended yesterday’s DM with the observation that the Cosmic Christ is the oldest Christology in the New Testament. Why is that so? Because Paul and the
