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Meditations with Matthew Fox
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More on Humanity’s Interior Life
or Lack Thereof |
When anger and rage and resentment and violence are prominent in politics and the media, when they are “in the air,” one can readily question whether humans have an interior life. Whether empathy and compassion, caring and
feeling for others, exists at all. |
We have a name for people who seem to be completely out of touch with their interior lives: Sociopaths. People who exhibit no feeling whatsoever in the
presence of the pain and suffering of others. | Kyle Kittleson of MedCircle interviews author/ psychologist Ramani Durvasula, Ph.D. (2018) on mental illnesses prominent in today’s society. |
Many examples come to mind, among them being the fellow who hit 82-year-old Mr. Pelosi
on the head with a hammer and fractured his skull. Or the fellow with a hate-filled radio show, by which he makes millions of dollars, who was recently fined close to one billion dollars for pursuing for decades the grieving
parents who lost children in Sandy Hook school massacre, pronouncing on the public air waves for all the world to hear that they were faking it, that Sandy Hook was fake news, that their children did not die. There are those who are
committed to denying the reality of climate change, even as they suffer as the rest of us do from the ever record-breaking heat and wild fires and droughts and hurricanes and floods that are products of climate change. |
Ajahn Sona, Abbot of Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery, Canada, offers a short dharma talk on the principle of Right Livelihood. | For those who are still in touch with their interior life, who can still feel the realness of Joy and Suffering, Creativity and Compassion, and feel themselves called to respond, let us meditate with some wisdom offered through |
the centuries about humanity’s interior life as it relates to our work. They
all attain perfection when they find joy in their work. (Bhagavad Gita) Always rejoice in the good work that you do. (Thomas Aquinas) In work, do what you enjoy. (Tao Te Ching) Every angel is with his whole joy and his whole bliss inside me and the Godself with all the divine bliss. Yet I do not perceive this. (Meister Eckhart) My occupation: Love. It’s
all I do. (John of the Cross) |
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Adapted from Matthew Fox, The Reinvention of Work, pp. 91f. Banner Image: A health care worker examines a patient in a street clinic in São Luís, Brazil. Photo by Carlos
Magno on Unsplash |
Queries for Contemplation Which of these testimonies to the interior life of our work touches you the deepest? Why is that so? |
Responses are welcomed. To add your comment, please click HERE
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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.”
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See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE |
Join Matthew Fox at the Louisville Festival of Faiths for an online/onsite workshop on “Significant Stories for Our Times: A Workshop with Matthew Fox: Earth Survival
from Thomas Merton, Science, Creation Spirituality Mystics and Ourselves” November 9-12, 2022 (Wed-Sat) Louisville, KY: Onsite and Virtual - Friday Workshop – 4:00pm-5:15pm ET on-site (1:00pm-2:15pm PT virtual)
- Saturday Spiritual Practice – 8:30am-9:15am ET on-site (5:30am-6:15am PT virtual)
https://festivaloffaiths.org/ Purchase a Friday ticket HERE Join Matthew Fox for the monthly Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, discussing Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality. Thursday, November 17,
4:00pm-6:00pm PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox for the monthly Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, discussing Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations. Thursday, December 15,
4:00pm-6:00pm PT Register HERE. Creation Spirituality Conversations |
In a podcast episode with the Earth and Spirit Center, Matthew Fox reflects on how creation-centered spirituality, and the marriage of the divine feminine and sacred masculine, can help us respond with hope
to the troubles of our apocalyptic times. Listen HERE. | |
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