#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "The truly wise person kneels at the feet of all creatures and is not afraid to endure the mockery of others." bit.ly/453ossb

#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "The day of my #spiritualawakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things." #MeisterEckhart calls this #breakthrough the realization that "I and God are one." #PanENtheism bit.ly/453ossb

We are losing one of the genuine artists of #satire at his prime in America today. Why is #StephenColbert leaving the air? #Malignantnarcissists lack a sense of humor, and #tyrants, as Aquinas teaches, are “more afraid of good people than of bad people.” bit.ly/3RmDG77

#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "I who am Divine am truly in you. I can never be sundered from you;...never can we be separated. I am in you & you are in Me. We could not be any closer. We 2 are fused into 1...thus unwearied, we shall remain forever." There is nothing btw us & God. bit.ly/453ossb

#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "I, God, am your playmate!...Beloved child, come swiftly to me for I am truly in you. Remember...the smallest soul of all is still the daughter of the Father, sister of the Son, friend of the Holy Spirit, & true bride of the Holy Trinity." #RealmOfWisdom bit.ly/453ossb

Research by @theguardian.com reveals #JusticeSamuelAlito “lied in his ruling to gut the #VotingRightsAct,” copying “almost verbatim” a Trump-admin claim that “the kind of discrimination that once made the Voting Rights Act necessary no longer exists.” Add your voice: bit.ly/4fw2u6w bit.ly/4dOUwEp

#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "At such a time I pray to God, 'Lord, this burden is too heavy for me!' God replies: 'I will take this burden first & clasp it close to Myself [so] you may more easily bear it.'" God undergoes the #suffering & dark night first. We have company in our brokenness. bit.ly/453ossb

In the early 2000s, many progressives said “ #ecology ...has nothing to do w/ the needs of the poor; it’s for the comfortable.” #FredShuttlesworth knew otherwise. He had heard of this new movement called “creation spirituality” & wanted to share the podium w/ me. #ItsAllConnected bit.ly/4uVIjUi

#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "There comes a time when both body & soul enter into such a vast darkness that one loses light & consciousness & knows nothing more of God's intimacy....With longing & distress we are reminded of our nothingness." bit.ly/453ossb

The N/S American genocide of indigenous peoples so often conducted as “you are not saved, we will save you” demonstrates Christendom's 4th-c link w/ empire which sent the church into “Christianity 2.0,” now showing its shadow side in “Christian nationalism,” MAGA et al. bit.ly/3RLeCqo

#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embrace the very same love which wounded her." Loving our enemies, embracing our wounds: harder but more effective than denial, anger, or bitterness, yes? bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianOfNorwich: "It is God's will that we do all in our power to keep ourselves strong, for happiness is everlasting & pain is passing & will end. Therefore it is not God's will that we pine & mourn over feelings of pain, but that we get better & continue to enjoy life." bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianOfNorwich: "I saw a great #oneing btw Christ & us b/c when he was in pain we were in pain. All creatures of God's creation...suffered w/ him. The sky & earth failed at...Christ's dying b/c he too was part of nature." God is far from invulnerable, but suffers also. bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianOfNorwich: "I saw a great #oneing btw Christ & us b/c when he was in pain we were in pain. All creatures of God's creation...suffered w/ him. The sky & earth failed at...Christ's dying b/c he too was part of nature." God is far from invulnerable, but suffers also. bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianOfNorwich: "Our Lord often said: '...I am what you love...what you enjoy....what you serve....what you long for...what you desire...what you intend. I am all that is.'" Our desires point us to Divinity itself. Does this invite us to purify what we love, enjoy, serve, long for? bit.ly/453ossb

#Aquinas’s favorite virtue was #magnanimity: “brave great dangers for great things:...common welfare, justice, divine worship....” #RabbiHeschel calls on all people: God demands every person to do #justice: it is the supreme commandment wh. cannot be fulfilled vicariously. bit.ly/4wvN6gS

#JulianOfNorwich: [Our Lord says] "'That which is impossible for you is not impossible to Me: I will preserve my Word in all things...I desire to make all things well, I will make all things well...every kind of thing will be well.'" bit.ly/453ossb

On Mother’s Day, 5/12/2019, 7 yrs ago, we launched the Daily Meditations. Sunday marked our 2555th Meditation & 727th video(!). We pause in awe, reflection, & profound gratitude to be celebrating this occasion with you all: truly, it would never have happened w/o our loyal followers. bit.ly/432Da0w

#JulianOfNorwich: "God is justice....God wants to be known & loved thru #Justice & #Compassion now & forever." Compassion & justice go together b/c compassion is not just feeling sorry for people: compassion is justice in action. We are to interfere w/ injustice & bring justice alive. bit.ly/453ossb

Waking up to Mother Earth's pain, we experience the #divinefeminine & need for a truer balance of fem & masc energies in our deepest selves, to give birth to a healthier culture. Mothering brings balance, caring, compassion & justice into education, politics, economics, & religion. bit.ly/3RgimQB

#JulianOfNorwich: "The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything." Can we find God in all things, even difficult things? Are we making some progress in doing so? bit.ly/453ossb

#SkylarWilson: "#Ritual can be a powerful way to come together as a community to create a conscious group field with an intention. Rituals have often been a way of accessing primordial powers that create & sustain communities & these are surely part of the #OrderOfTheSacredEarth. bit.ly/3Ql5rsN

#JulianOfNorwich: "My own sin will not hinder the working of God's goodness." We all fail and fall short. We are capable of inappropriate choices & harmful behavior. But that does not slow down the work of God's goodness which is more powerful than our shortcomings. bit.ly/453ossb

"Often our trust is not full. We are not certain God hears us b/c we consider ourselves worthless & as nothing. This is ridiculous & the cause of our weakness. I have felt this way myself." Most of us have these feelings, but #Julian urges us to go beyond them: #trust is everything. bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "If the only #prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you," that would suffice. #Gratitude is at the heart of the authentic spiritual experience: prayer is an act not of begging or beseeching or wanting or needing, but of #thanking. bit.ly/453ossb

Billionaires’ worth has gained $4T in the last 12 months. US inequality increased over the global average. CEO pay increased 25%, 2024 to 2025, while workers’ pay increased 1.3%. ITUC General Secretary Luc Triangle called it a "billionaire coup against democracy." bit.ly/49hDwUD

Gandhi: “There is a higher court than courts of justice & that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” Howard Thurman, MLK Jr., Fred Shuttlesworth, Rosa Parks, & thousands of others knew this & braved beatings & violence & death b/c they had consciences to follow. bit.ly/4n7LRA1

#JulianofNorwich: "True thanking is to enjoy God." Think: if you give someone a gift that they enjoy using, that joy is the most satisfying thank-you they could offer. We thank God more by our enjoyment of God's gifts than by our mere words. And this delights God. bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianofNorwich: "God is goodness that cannot be wrathful. Our soul is oned to God, unchangeable goodness, & therefore btw God & our soul there is neither wrath nor forgiveness because there is no between." Have you had glimpses of that union, nondualism, "oneing" btw yrself & God? bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianofNorwich: "Our soul must perform 2 duties:...we must reverently wonder & be surprised; we must gently let go & let be, always taking pleasure in God." These are 1st 2 paths of the Creation Spirituality journey: #viapositiva & #vianegativa, joy & praise & silence & suffering. bit.ly/453ossb

Wednesday was a dark, dark day in U.S. history: SCOTUS enactment of “Jim Crow 2.0”, pissing on graves of Civil Rights martyrs & Union soldiers. But there is a remedy: a big Democratic election victory & passing the John Lewis Voting Act & banning gerrymandering. #VotingRightsAct bit.ly/42sWmVf

#JulianofNorwich: "I saw no kind of #vengeance in God. In God are endless friendship, space, life, & being...I saw #wrath & vengeance only on our part. God #forgives that in us." How does this alter or detox your understanding of Divinity? What kind of healing medicine does it offer? bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianofNorwich: "God feels great delight to be our Father &...great delight to be our Mother &...our true Spouse & our soul the loved Wife. Christ feels great delight that he is our Brother & Jesus...that he is our Liberator. These are the 5 great joys that God wants us to enjoy." bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianofNorwich: "We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us." Where #theism says "we are here & God is out there someplace," #panentheism names the nearness of God, we in God and God in us, like the fish in the water & the water in the fish. That is how God operates. bit.ly/453ossb

#RabbiHeschel: "Asceticism was not the ideal of the biblical person. The source of evil is not in passion, in the throbbing ❤️, but in hardness of ❤️, in callousness & insensitivity." The prophets speak to the "imagination & passions, rather than to the cold approbation of the mind."* bit.ly/4dcxg2M

#JulianofNorwich: "I saw God never began to love us...We have always been in God's foreknowledge, known & loved from w/o beginning...We were made for love." Julian breaks from #Augustine et al's preaching re: #OriginalSin, siding w/ those who know we have been loved fr the beginning. bit.ly/453ossb

I have felt deeply blessed by praying w/ Indigenous people in their embodied practices, e.g., #sweatlodge. A lodge is not that different fr a #CosmicMass, where we dance & sweat our prayers. As one Traditional Sun Dancer told me after a TCM, “the TCM is your version of a sweat lodge.” bit.ly/4d4y4Xo

#JulianofNorwich: "God is nearer to us than our own soul & God is the means whereby our Substance & our Sensuality are kept together so as never to be apart." So pleased is God w/ our true nature as sensuous animals that God acts as intermediary btw our soul & our senses. bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianOfNorwich: "Our Sensuality is the beautiful City in which our Lord Jesus sits & in which He is enclosed...In our sensuality God is." This characterization ends the Platonic dualisms - body vs. soul warfare - that have haunted patriarchal religion & philosophy for 2500 years. bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianOfNorwich: "Just as God is truly our Father, so also is God truly our Mother. The deep Wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother. In her we are all enclosed." What are the implications of a Feminine & Masculine Divine for our daughters & granddaughters, sons & grandsons? bit.ly/453ossb

#JulianOfNorwich: " #Nature & #Grace are in harmony w/ each other. For Grace is God & Nature is God. Neither Nature nor Grace works w/o the other. They may never be separated... That Goodness that is Nature is God....God is the true Father & Mother of Nature." bit.ly/453ossb

Remembering #PopeFrancis on the anniversary of his death: he demonstrated deep humanity, including joy, courage, & an open heart. He used his very visible pulpit to announce good news & gospel-driven values that his successor #PopeLeo is proclaiming equally refreshingly. bit.ly/4cnPi1Q

#JulianOfNorwich: "Some believe God is All-Power & can do all, & that God is All-Wisdom & knows how to do all. But that God is All-Love & wants to love all, here we restrain ourselves. And this ignorance hinders most of God's lovers...God wants to be thought of as our Lover." bit.ly/453ossb

Those who say #politics is outside the domain of #religion might take a lesson from Gandhi: “Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.” And “Nature and society are both subject to a single law of justice and unity.” #PropheticVoice bit.ly/4mQ9xJ1

#JulianofNorwich: "As the body is clothed in cloth & the muscles in the skin & the bones in the muscles & the heart in the chest, so are we, body & soul, clothed in the Goodness of God & enclosed." Can you imagine your own flesh & bones as the arms of God holding your heart & soul? bit.ly/453ossb

GeneenMarieHaugen: "We have psycho-spiritual receptors for an...embodied, mystical sense of #sacredEarth ...innate genius for communion & ceremonial participation w/...potent places. All creatures & the planet benefit when humans recognize, honor & participate w/ the holy Earth. bit.ly/4sqRlZ3

#JulianOfNorwich: "God is everything that is good & the goodness that everything possesses is God." Every experience of goodness (=blessing) is an experience of God. When you experience goodness in your life, to whom do you give credit? bit.ly/453ossb

SkylarWilson: Experiences of Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, etc,..continue to inspire, yet they are less helpful taken in place of our lived experiences of tastes, sensations, & movements w/in creative immediacy of the pulsing, wild Earth. #OrderOfTheSacredEarth bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#StFrancisOfAssisi: "All praise be yours, my Lord, thru all that you have made, & first my Lord Brother Sun, Who brings the day; & light you give us thru him. How beautiful he is, how radiant in his splendor! Of You, Most High, he bears the likeness..... bit.ly/453ossb

#TrumpCo is carrying on another war just as serious as T's threat to destroy #Iran: i.e., annihilation of Mother Earth, via ongoing onslaught on laws & practices protecting Earth since 1st Earth Day, 1970. This is not a threat of annihilation of a civilization but of life on Earth. bit.ly/4vtbtv7