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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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E.F. Schumacher on Work and Spirituality |
E.F. Schumacher wrote iconic books on what constitutes good work or “right livelihood” or wise work. He warned us that as a species “we are now far too clever to survive without wisdom.” |
Notice what he is saying: Being clever is not being wise. Being rich or being powerful is not being wise. And having a degree in knowledge does not make you wise. And that lacking wisdom, we may not survive. I have proposed the same thing: That we have knowledge factories but very few wisdom schools. Thus many of our workers and those in professions from law and judiciary to economics and business to media and journalism to seminaries and religion may be far from wise. | What good shall I do this day? Photo by Nathan Lemon on Unsplash |
Knowledge does not make you wise. |
In an Epilogue to his classic work, Small Is Beautiful, Schumacher tells us the need to keep our inner houses in order when he says: Everywhere people ask: 'What can I actually do?’ The answer is as simple as it is disconcerting: We can each of us work to put our own inner house in order. The guidance we need for this work cannot be found in science or technology, the value of which utterly depends on the ends they serve; but it can still be found in the traditional wisdom of mankind.
The mystics of all traditions are among those carriers of “the traditional wisdom of mankind” that needs to be studied and upgraded and applied for our time.
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Adapted from Matthew Fox, The Reinvention of Work, p. 21. Banner image: An Amish barn raising. Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash |
Queries for Contemplation Does your commitment to studying the mystics and sacred books of humankind contribute to wisdom in our time? |
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The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood For Our Time Thomas Aquinas said, “To live well is to work well,” and in this bold call for the revitalization of daily work, Fox shares his vision of a world where our personal and professional lives are celebrated in harmony–a world where the self is not sacrificed for a job but is sanctified by authentic “soul work.” “Fox approaches the level of poetry in describing the reciprocity that must be present between one’s inner and outer work…[A]n important road map to social change.” ~~ National Catholic Reporter | |
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Join Matthew Fox in a 6-week virtual course on “Mystics, Mysticism and Ourselves as Mystic-Prophets,” hosted by Creation Spirituality Communities. Wednesdays, 8/24, 8/31,
9/7, 9/14, 9/21, and 9/28, 4:00pm-6:00pm PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox for the monthly Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, discussing The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Thursday, September 15, 4:00pm-6:00pm PT. Register HERE. |
Matthew Fox, Caroline Myss, and Andrew Harvey offer a 3-part series of solo online lectures on “The Power of Truth, Wisdom, Choice Part 2” through the Sophia Institute in Charleston, SC. Wednesdays, September 21, 28, October 5, 3:00pm-4:30pm PT. Register HERE. Creation Spirituality in Conversation |
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Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism, interviews Matthew Fox on The Essential Writings of Creation Spirituality, July 26, 2022. |
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