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
The Supreme Court as a Nothingburger, continued
Matthew Fox
August 9, 2022
The Supreme Court has become a Nothing. No one will look to it any more for a balanced or sane pronouncement on the law and rule
Speaking of Nothingness: The Supreme Court as a Nothingburger
Matthew Fox
August 8, 2022
The current Supreme Court has devolved into a vile experience of Political Nothingness. Political hacks and religious quacks have reduced it to an intellectual joke and
Considering Nothingness and Nothingburgers
Matthew Fox
August 7, 2022
We have a current concept in our culture applicable to political nothingness when we invoke the word “nothingburger.” A nothingburger seems to be a promised meal
Hiroshima, 2022: Humanity’s Capacity for Rendering Nothingness
Matthew Fox
August 6, 2022
We have been meditating on some of the many meanings of Nothingness. Today, August 6, 2022, is the 77th anniversary of the nothingness rendered by the atomic
Some Poems to the Mother
Matthew Fox
August 5, 2022
In response to the Kansas voters, I choose to share some teachings about the Divine Mother that I initially gathered for the opening of my
Kansas Voters vs. Judicial, Political and Religious Extremists
Matthew Fox
August 4, 2022
It seems that Kansas struck down the extremists–political, judicial and ecclesial–in their resounding veto of allowing politicians (of all people), judges and clergy to tell
Ceremony of Sorrow, Hope, & Action, continued
Matthew Fox
August 3, 2022
We are calling upon Rabbi Arthur Waskow’s teaching that addresses climate change and the extinction reality for our species and so many others in our
