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
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Merton and the Via Positiva
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 27, 2025
“Contemplation is the highest expression of man’s intellectual and spiritual life. It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is
“The deepest ground of my being is love”
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 26, 2025
Thomas Merton was a Roman Catholic monk and writer who died rather young in 1968, in suspicious circumstances. He was in Bangkok, Thailand, at that
Holy Trailblazers
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
May 7, 2025
Stories about people who acted for the good of the whole in peculiarly difficult circumstances, even to the extreme sacrifice, are important for us. They
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
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
