In trying times like those we are entering into, become like a camel and store the #ViaPositiva, your love of #life and #joy in life and #biophilia, in your camel's hump as we journey across the desert.
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
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Even in the darkness, the #ViaPositiva is there to be seen & appreciated. Gratitude for our #existence, beauty, breath, bodies, minds & imaginations, #relationships & children, time, & #choices about how & why we live & for whom & w/ what values --these no one can take from us. bit.ly/3YxOFuY
The experience of emptiness & void ( #ViaNegativa) is essential to #Merton’s art. True, w/o letting go there can be no #art — less is better than too much — but in Merton the soul's movement from #contemplation/ #ViaPositiva to #creativity & art is washed thru the #nothingness of God. https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/05/28/merton-and-the-via-negativa/
Redd's Cakewalk Eclipse Stroll 3 29 25

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The #mystic in us is the lover, & love brings both #joy & #hope. The mystic goes to the edge & does not faint; the mystic faces the terror of Joy (#ViaPositiva) & Darkness (ViaNegativa) & doesn't flinch, but launches into the deep. This is part of the #spiritualwarrior archetype. https://bit.ly/4hwiUdh
T.S. Eliot on the Mystics as Medicine For Despair - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

There is considerable despair in the air these days. And for obvious reasons that do not need renaming here. T.S. Eliot offered the mystics as medicine for despair when he said, “the mystics—or else despair.” Why did he say that? What is he telling us? Clearly he believed that the mystics bring hope. What I mean by that is […]

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Deepening Our Spiritual Warriorhood with John of the Cross & Others - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

In Saturday’s DM, responding to a reader’s request for guidance on how to sustain oneself in fierce times, we considered how to sustain the spiritual warrior in oneself by way of community such as OSE. Last week I finished cosmologist Brian Swimme and my seven-week course on “The Four Paths” with the Shift Network. We taught […]

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Suddenly I have a minor hit. Then it fades. I never quite know why a video get seen by more than 20 people, #Video #Original #Song #Opera #ViaPositiva #MyLife #LaDolceVida
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Fear and Loathing (Paul Robeson LIVES)

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In trying times like those we are entering into, become like a camel and store the #ViaPositiva, your love of #life and #joy in life and #biophilia, in your camel's hump as we journey across a desert horizon beginning January 20. And #resist. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
What Do We Actually Know: Bernardo Kastrup

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