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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Mystics on the Wonder of Our Universe, I
We have been meditating on the wonder of the universe as being seen through the eyes of the Webb telescope.
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How have mystics over the centuries sung about our home, the universe? Consider how they might be responding today to see the pictures of the first galaxies and earliest years arriving in our living rooms thanks to the sacred curiosity and real ingenuity of our (very imperfect) species?
| “When I am Among the Trees,” by Mary Oliver. Read by Amanda Palmer. Video by WisdoMango.
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Let us consider their own words. Kabir, from 15th century India, tells us to blend the outside world to the inner world and vice versa.
Inside this clay jug there are canyons and pine mountains, and the maker of canyons and pine mountains!
All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds of millions of stars.
The acid that tests gold is there, and the one who judges jewels.
And the music from the strings no one touches, and the source of all water.
If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth:
Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.*
You have made all your works in wisdom. (Ps. 104:24)
Every grain of dust has a wonderful soul. (Joan Miro)
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“The Garden – an animated painting by Joan Miró.” Video by ellahov.
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The whole world and all creatures will be to you nothing else than an open book and living Bible, in which you may study, without any previous instruction, the science of God and from which you may learn his will. (Sebastian Franck)
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The Word is living, being spirit all verdant greening, all creativity. This word manifest itself in every creature. (Hildegard of Bingen)
Every creature is a word of God and a book about God. (Meister Eckhart)
Creation not only exists, it also discharges truth….Wisdom requires a surrender, verging on the mystical, of a person to the glory of existence. (Gerhard Von Rad, a scholar of Wisdom books of the Bible)
Our children need to learn not only how to read books composed by human genius but also how to read the Great Book of the World. Reading this Great Book is natural to children. (Thomas Berry)
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe….
No particle is ever wasted or worn out, but eternally flowing from use to use. (John Muir)
The word that goes forth from my mouth does not return to me empty. (Isa. 55:11)
Thinkers, listen.Tell me what you know of that is not inside the soul?* (Kabir)
| All things connected: George Monbiot narrates the discovery of the lifegiving trophic cascade that occurred when wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. Kali Fielder
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Queries for Contemplation
How does the universe live in your soul? Do these teachings help name the touch and communion between your soul and
creation?
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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
In this book Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology). Here Fox lays out the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.”
–Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story
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Creation Spirituality in Conversation.
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Victor Fuhrman of Destination Unlimited on OMTimes interviews Matthew Fox on Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality. Navigate to the podcast page by clicking the image on the left.
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Announcing Matthew Fox's Newest Book!
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Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality
Selected with an introduction by Charles Burack
“This collection of Fox’s most life-giving insights blesses the connection between caring for our Mother-the-Earth and lifting up marginalized voices, between waking up from the dream of separation and stepping up to mend the net of creation.”
—Mirabai Starr, author, God of Love and Wild Mercy
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