
Hildegard of Bingen on Emptying and the Via Negativa
Like Howard Thurman, who speaks in his book on Jesus and the Disinherited to “people with their backs against the wall,” Hildegard of Bingen teaches
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Like Howard Thurman, who speaks in his book on Jesus and the Disinherited to “people with their backs against the wall,” Hildegard of Bingen teaches

Thurman insists that emptying becomes a new source of energy, a new encounter with the Divine. It holds within it the possibility of “readying the

We humans are a curious lot. Some days, we drive one another crazy; others, we touch one another with our beauty, generosity and courage. Some

In light of several billionaires buying their way currently into space, we are challenging their priorities with a warning from Thomas Merton: That the far

Thurman’s experience as a wonder-filled child as well as his peoples’ experience from an African Earth-based reverence for the cosmos permeates his many rich self-disclosures.

We have been journeying with mystics who grasp the importance of connecting our inner selves (psyche) to the cosmos, and thus growing our souls. Mystics

Sister Joan Chittister calls Mary Magdalene “an important icon for the 21st Century” who urges women to listen to the call of Christ over the

Ernesto Cardenal says: All sexual love is a symbol of divine love…. As a matter Marriage has such enchantment and is something divine for us

We continue to listen to Nicaraguan poet and mystic Ernest Cardenal alongside French mystic and scientist Teilhard de Chardin. Today, on the subject of love

Ernesto Cardenal says that we can argue about the reason for the universe and about the meaning of the universe, but not about the beauty
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