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Henry David Thoreau: Spiritual Minimalist

11/27/2024

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Henry David Thoreau: Spiritual Minimalist
 
Writing well over a century ago, the American Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau clearly had a sense of what we have previously (see blog post from 11/8/23) referred to as Epistemological Humility and Spiritual Minimalism, when in defining religion in his journal entry of August 18,1858, he wrote:
 
                                    “What is religion? That which is never spoken.”
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Rich Neal link
11/30/2024 01:26:18 pm

"Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees." (Thomas Merton)

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Chuck
12/1/2024 06:47:13 am

This is a favorite from Merton that I frequently share ; good to see it coming from someone else…..🙏🙏c

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