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
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Merton & Eckhart on Nothingness, continued
Matthew Fox
August 11, 2022
In yesterday’s poem, composed from his hospital bed, Merton addresses “Eckhart’s castle.” Eckhart’s talk about the soul as a “castle” relates to the Biblical phrase,
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
Exploring Nothingness: Teachings from the Mystics, continued
Matthew Fox
July 9, 2022
There is such a thing as political nothingness and today, with a politicized SCOTUS, a supreme court nothingness. A Supreme Court reducing American jurisprudence to nothing, pulverizing the
Spark of the Soul as Cosmic Christ in Merton & Eckhart
Matthew Fox
June 15, 2022
Merton talks about Eckhart’s “Christian doctrine of creation” in which he recognizes that the distinction between Creator and creature does not have the last word. “A
Merton & Eckhart: The Spark amidst Suffering & Nothingness
Matthew Fox
June 14, 2022
The experience of Nothingness can happen alongside the experience of the divine spark. The Via Positiva and Negativa often dance side by side. The darkness of
Thomas Merton on Idolatry
Matthew Fox
June 5, 2022
In yesterday’s meditation, we spoke about idolatry. Thomas Merton offered some insights about idolatry in our day that, with time, have proven to be powerfully prophetic.
More Via Positiva from Merton, Eckhart & Thomas Berry
Matthew Fox
April 27, 2022
In his book, Conjectures from a Guilty Bystander, Merton offers this testimony to wonder and awe. I stepped out of the north wing of the monastery and
The Sense of Wonder, continued, Original Blessing
Matthew Fox
April 26, 2022
For me, the sense of wonder is synonymous with the Via Positiva. In the Via Positiva we are struck by awe—like Rachel Carson and her 20
Rachel Carson & Thomas Merton on the Sense of Wonder
Matthew Fox
April 25, 2022
In yesterday’s DM, we brought together the unlikely prophet of the environmental movement, Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, and Catholic monk Thomas Merton who responded
