Happy birthday to Wendell Berry. Here he is in Thomas Merton’s hermitage in the mid-60s with Merton and Denise Levertov.
Jon M. Sweeney
@jonmsweeney.bsky.social
Author of many books: ‘Experiencing God’, ‘The Complete Francis of Assisi’, ‘Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart’…etc. Vermonter. Catholic married to Recon rabbi.
Socrates valued memory over writing: "Those who rely on writing to bring things to their remembrance by external signs do so at the expense of building their own internal resources."
This is freaky on several levels www.scandinaviastandard.com/ss-f-greenla...
Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, meaning some swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Isaac Newton was, and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind due to p...
Radiocarbon dating of eye-lens tissue has revealed that Greenland sharks can live close to 400 years — and that most of them spend those centuries with a parasitic copepod eating their corneas.
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Fascinating book. Here’s my review, that just went live. www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews...
There are times Eckhart sounds Franciscan. 📚🙏 This one - So You Want to Find God? - is from "Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets."
A robin (English robin) did perch on my shoe for a while once, but I suspect your stillness has to be saintly to have so many avian guests at once.
Maybe the thing with the birds is not as difficult as it looks?
I have been on a years-long journey with Thoreau - treating the Journal that he kept for decades as an almost religious text. His post-Christian sensibility toward the world has formed me in key ways. That we explore in this e-course beginning Monday: SpiritualityandPractice.com/ThoreauE-Course
I have been on a years-long journey with Thoreau - treating the Journal that he kept for decades as an almost religious text. His post-Christian sensibility toward the world has formed me in key ways. That we explore in this e-course beginning Monday: SpiritualityandPractice.com/ThoreauE-Course
I have Jewish friends who are removing the flags from their bimas. I wish Catholics would do the same. The reasons NOT to have political flags on a dais are stronger than reasons to keep them.
See the marketing tagline the Chesterton book used to run on the front cover? I don't think it's true.
30 Ways to Hope: A Month in the Spirituality of Henry D. Thoreau We begin on Monday. You can join us: www.spiritualityandpractice.com/ecourses/cou...
There’s a devaluation of original writing going on. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...
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Abp Wester: “Anti-Muslim sentiment has no place in the heart of a Christian. Any hostility toward Muslims—whether expressed through rhetoric, suspicion, or opposition to their places of worship—is incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who commands us to love our neighbor without exception.”
Overheard in a used bookstore. Two friends browsing together. "What are you looking for?" "Nothing." "Why not?" "I have a book right now." Good Lord, hard to believe we're the same species.
Kind of rotten. She keeps her scholarly integrity, as well as accolades from the filmmaker, and tremendous fresh royalties. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson rips apart film, says she'd be 'ashamed to have written' script
The translator who inspired Christopher Nolan when crafting his adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” is calling out the film's character depictions, female roles, and war themes despite praising its b...
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From my shelves, an association copy. Buber's "I & Thou," a book that had a big impact on me. It was owned by the Japanese Pure Land Buddhism scholar, who taught at Smith College, Taitetsu Unno. Unno wrote an afterword 27 years ago for my first book.
Ben & Jerry’s headquarters scoop shop, Waterbury, Vermont.
“A reminder, as AI excites the world, that humanity is magnificent without it.” www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews...
Magnifica Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV | Review | Spirituality & Practice
A reminder, as AI excites the world, that humanity is magnificent without it.
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I find so interesting (and rarely discussed) the greed-jealousy of the man’s reaction to finding that treasure in the field.
Sr Judith@srjudithl.bsky.social · 2w agoA 🧵on the treasure of the Kingdom. 1/6 Today’s gospel, the pearl of great price, has always deeply resonated with me. Every time we hear it, I find something new to reflect on. It describes a very regular occurrence in daily life in a way that gives it a whole new perspective.
The beguine Hadewijch of Antwerp taught the virtue of “noble unfaith.” The problem with faith for most people, she said, was how it dampened desire by answering every question and creating contentment.
"Thirty Ways of Hope with Henry D. Thoreau." Begins August 3. www.spiritualityandpractice.com/ecourses/cou...
Library of the Carmelite Fathers of Piasek, Poland. 1939.
Calling all Meister Eckhart fans. Coming December 7. Here's the table of contents.
Imagine this amazing truth From "Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets"
