
Our Sacred Earth: Thomas Merton Meets Rachel Carson
Shortly after Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, her iconic book that is credited with launching the environmental movement, Catholic monk Thomas Merton responded thus: I have been
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Shortly after Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, her iconic book that is credited with launching the environmental movement, Catholic monk Thomas Merton responded thus: I have been

The other day I was asked by a Sufi practitioner who is also a Jewish scholar: “where did you first wrote about the term “Deep

One man who celebrated the Divine Feminine and Sophia is the late Catholic monk Thomas Merton. Merton, like Julian of Norwich whom he praised

The journey to “the depths of our own being” that Merton speaks of is calling us all. Without it our species will not survive and

Yesterday we cited Thomas Merton’s deep concerns about our missing out on “the most important of all voyages” if technology distracts us. This in light

We have been meditating on the cosmos and Earth and touching the spirit behind both, the ground of being. Sunday, a British billionaire, one of

Thomas Merton’s book on Ishi: A Meditation begins with the following stark words: Genocide is a new word. Perhaps the word is new because technology

Having meditated with Thomas Merton the last three days, it seems appropriate to consider Celtic consciousness and the Ground of being. Why? Because Merton was

Catholic monk Thomas Merton declared that every non two-legged creature is a saint. Furthermore, …every plant that stands in the light of the sun is a

We have been meditating on the experience of the “ground of being” which Thich Naht Hanh says is his favorite name for God. His close
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