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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Week of 11/7-12: Governing Ourselves, the Inner Life, and Peter Gabel |
Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to a previous meditation which may call to you. |
| Women upset by the overturning of Roe vs Wade may have a huge impact in this election. Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash |
sovereignty over their own bodies, the right to marry whomever one loves, and the rise of fascism and the violence that accompanies it. |
November 8, 2022. Governing Humans Is Hard for
Humans
Here we explore the difficulties we have in governing ourselves as well as our unfortunate proclivity to violence. We also look at Bible stories which illustrate our difficulties in communication and the violence we sometimes perpetrate even against our own family members. |
November 9, 2022. Consciousness & Conscience: The Interior Life of Humans
In this meditation we
reflect on the importance of our inner lives. Have human beings lost their capacity to look inward? Matthew Fox looks at the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality as a guide for our inner process. And finally, we have this insightful quotation from Meister Eckhart: The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth. |
November 10, 2022. More on Humanity’s Interior Life or Lack Thereof
In this meditation we explore sociopaths and those who lack an interior life,
a conscience. In contrast, we also celebrate those whose compassion is reflected in their work, and we look at wise quotations about right livelihood, including this one from John of the Cross: My occupation: Love. It’s all I do. |
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was redeemable at all. Notably, he informed us that the “originalist” philosophy of many of today’s Supreme Court justices was never mentioned in law school. Not once. |
November 12, 2022. In Memoriam: Peter Gabel, Part II
In this meditation, we further celebrate this good man, called by theologian Cornell West “one of the grand prophetic voices in our day.” Gabel was not only a lawyer, but the dean of New College School of Law and the president of New College for twenty years. He
was also the author of several books, including The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self. He was committed to transforming the practice of law as well as the politics of our country. At his memorial service, people said that he had an inner glow, and that he “brought out the best in everyone.” |
Sins of the Spirit,
Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the
Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications
of the new Physics | |
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound
exploration of the meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate activity.
“Well worth our deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper
focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register | |
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality 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): 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 | |
The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood For Our Time
Matthew Fox draws on a rich legacy of great mystics and philosophers East and West in laying out a profound spirituality of work in this bold call for the revitalization of daily work. 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.” In The Reinvention of Work, Matthew Fox asks why of all the beings in the universe only the human being is out of work. He brings together the teachings of Eastern and Western mystics to propose a new paradigm for exploring the depths of the meaning
of work and the redefining of work. Citing Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas, Hildegard von Bingen, the Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, Studs Terkel, and progressive economists, Fox explores the concept of work and how it can be healthier socially, environmentally, and spiritually. All spiritual teachers agree that joy is the first purpose of work. Most people put their stamp on history by their work. Work is what we spend so much time and effort preparing for (education),
recovering from (weekends and vacations) and engaged in. Surely work lies at the heart of our spiritual lives and what we choose to leave behind. Fox recounts the stories of people who reinvent themselves through work, who are willing to sacrifice position and possessions to find a vocation that matters, like the man who gives up a high-paying position to become a fireman and who is ecstatic about the meaning his decision brings to his life and others. “A splendidly illuminated path to
meaning.” –Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce | |
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