#Aquinas: “Brave great dangers for great things, e.g. the common welfare, #justice, divine worship." Jeremiah: “The Lord is w/ me like a brave #warrior.” #RabbiHeschel talks about "urgency of justice” & “to do justice is what God demands of every person." bit.ly/3M5Nlw4
bit.ly/4nZgt5y #JungleKeepers

#Aquinas: " #Compassion is the fire which the Lord has come to send on the earth"; #RabbiHeschel: "To sense the living God is to sense infinite #goodness, infinite #wisdom, infinite #beauty. Such a sensation is a sensation of #joy." Joy & celebration are integral to compassion. bit.ly/4kxtIcG

Rabbi Heschel & Hildegard of Bingen on Dark Nights & Holiness - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox These days of the Dark Night of soul, society and our species, I find myself returning frequently to the wisdom of the mystics who dare to speak of the dark night, as well of the ecstasies of life and...

#RabbiHeschel: The Biblical answer to #evil is not the #good but the #holy ...Living in ‘the light of the face of God’ bestows on humans a power of #love that enables them to overcome the powers of evil." bit.ly/3G6nAc2

Honoring the Courage of Those Who Sacrifice & Follow Conscience - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox Three days ago, we honored the 20th anniversary of Sister Dorothy Stang’s martyrdom among the peasant farmers living in the rainforest, and committed to defending it against forces of greed that are t...

#Aquinas: We are to “brave great dangers for great things, e.g. the common welfare, #justice, divine worship." Jeremiah: “The Lord is with me like a brave #warrior.” #RabbiHeschel talks about the "urgency of justice” & how “to do justice is what God demands of every person." bit.ly/4k240xm

A Sense of the Whole and the Holy vs. a Rampaging Oligarchy - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox In yesterday’s DM, I asked the question whether the crashing down of so many elements of our “civilization” might suggest we ought to start over by beginning with the cosmos itself.  When we lose a se...

#RabbiHeschel: “Forfeit the sense of #awe & the #universe becomes a #marketplace for you.” #ThomasBerry spoke of the same reality when he said that using the Earth as an object to be bought, sold & abused will destroy it & us. #SacredEarth #CommunityOfSubjectsNotCollectionOfObjects bit.ly/40lYRbG

Love, Mysticism, Anger: Healing  of Democracy via the Irrational? - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox Yesterday we considered Otto Rank’s medicine for an ailing democracy.  Rank was living at a time like ours, the rise of fascism and the dangerous irrationality of culture and politics in the late 1930...

#OttoRank: “the epitome of the irrational is the marvel of creation itself.” #RabbiHeschel reminds us “awe is the beginning of wisdom.” The #rational gives us #knowledge, and that is important; but wonder leads to #wisdom. bit.ly/3YZJ7Jw