What Creation Spirituality Means with Matthew Fox
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Fox is an internationally acclaimed spiritual theologian, Episcopal priest, and activist. He holds a doctor in the History and Theology of Spirituality
In this episode, Eric and Matthew discuss his book: Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality.
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Matthew Fox and I Discuss What Creation Spirituality Means and …
- His book, Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality.
- Creation spirituality is about the sacredness of nature and our existence
- Dualism as the fall of humanity
- How it’s easy to forget to savor the beauty of existence
- Accepting the “both/and” rather than “either/or:
- Learning to fall in love the world around us
- The 4 paths of creation spirituality
- Creativity is what distinguishes postmodern from modern science
- The importance of cultivating creativity in a spiritual journey
- How art can be a meditation
- How both creating and taking in art is being an artist
- Compassion is about sharing both the joy and sorrow with one another
- Hildegard’s tent of wisdom
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| 0:00.0 | This mystery of life, death, and resurrection is built into, I think, the cosmic processes |
| 0:05.2 | we're discovering that more and more from science today. |
| 0:08.3 | So there's a tremendous law there about, don't think that our suffering or death is the |
| 0:13.4 | last word. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to The One You Feed. |
| 0:24.4 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes |
| 0:29.2 | like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:34.6 | And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:38.8 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:43.6 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:46.4 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:50.0 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:53.4 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
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