Eckhart, Hafiz, Jung, & Rank: The Universality of Motherhood
Matthew Fox
May 4, 2022
In response to a recent DM, a one of our wise readers, a woman, made the point that we are all, whether male or female,
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MC Richards & Julian of Norwich on Creativity & Mothering
Matthew Fox
May 3, 2022
Potter, poet, philosopher, MC Richards (who took up painting at 70 years of age and confessed, “it’s too late for technique),” knew something about Creativity. Indeed,
Motherhood as Primal
Matthew Fox
May 2, 2022
Adrienne Rich reminds us that motherhood is primal in lives of both boys and girls. It is with a woman’s hands, eyes, body, voice, that we
Adrienne Rich, Jung, Eckhart on Motherhood & Creativity
Matthew Fox
May 1, 2022
In a recent DM, we celebrated the Via Positiva and the Via Creativa and the role that the artist (and that means all of us)
Leading Up to Mother’s Day: Hildegard and Julian of Norwich
Matthew Fox
April 30, 2022
A week from tomorrow is Mother’s Day. It is also the third anniversary of our launching of these Daily Meditations, for we deliberately chose Mother’s Day
A Love Song to the World, The Power of Gratitude and of Art
Matthew Fox
April 29, 2022
I was deeply moved by the song “Grateful: A Love Song to the World” in yesterday’s DM and I thank Phila Hoopes, one of our
Original Blessing: A Cosmic, not just a Human, Condition
Matthew Fox
April 28, 2022
This morning I was struck by a well-meaning and very bright person who wrote this about my work and the resistance aroused in some lofty
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
