contemplative ecology
- But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
from Galatians 5:18 - Living by the Spirit
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In the process his perception was washed clean of mental and emotional formations that blurred his vision of the way things really are: impermanent, empty, self-less, undying.
from When the Trees Say Nothing by Thomas Merton
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The great storyteller of “Monk's pond” had no story to tell anymore; he was simply attending to the “wild being” he shared with creation, sensing it a “strange awakening to find the sky inside you and beneath you and above you and all around you so that your spirit is one with the sky” (SJ, p. 340).
from When the Trees Say Nothing by Thomas Merton
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viriditas (Hildegard of Bingen’s description for the spiritual, healing green force of vitality imbued throughout nature).
from Most Honored Greening Force: Contemplative Ecology and the Living World by Sarah James
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Merton had recovered the Tao, the way of nature, in all its immediacy and transformative power, by the practice of self-forgetful attentiveness to creation that drew him out of his distorting mental preoccupations. This entrainment to nature brought him to his senses, letting him experience the naked vitality of life encompassing him on all sides.
from When the Trees Say Nothing by Thomas Merton
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Indoors, the church was a patriarch. But outside? The earth seemed like a mother.
from Most Honored Greening Force: Contemplative Ecology and the Living World by Sarah James
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