Economic Crisis, Morality and Meaning

Trusting Our Deeper Knowing:
On Cataclysms, Contemplation and Circles of Trust

"Who doesn't know that an economic system that encourages us to live beyond our means and refuses to regulate greed is one in which our avarice will come back to bite us? Who doesn't know that at every level of life, from personal to global to cosmic, what goes around comes around?"

"...activism ungrounded in contemplation can lead to ego-induced blindness, shutting down those soul-deep sources of knowing that open us to larger truth."

What do the French Revolution, roosting chickens and Thomas Merton have in common? Parker Palmer of Speaking of Faith reports on a three-day Circle of Trust retreat held in October of 2008, just one day after the Dow Jones had fallen nearly 40 percent below its record high, set only a year earlier.

Faith -- faith is an island in the setting sun
but proof -- proof is the bottom line for everyone.
- Paul Simon

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