Journey to Wholeness
“Render to Caesar” (3 panels)
Mark 12:17 “in a snailshell”
Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 by Gloria M. Chang
… Read the restSome Pharisees and Herodians were sent to Jesus to ensnare him in his speech. They came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion.
“How did you stuff so much fluff into a tiny ball? (Part 2: 2 Panels)”
©️2020 by Gloria M. Chang… Read the rest
“The Eternal Tao (Panels 3 and 4)”
©️2020 by Gloria M. Chang
“The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 1, translated by Derek Lin
The named is the mother of myriad things”
God is both hidden and manifest (nameless and named) in relationship to spiritual creatures. … Read the rest
“The Eternal Tao (Panels 1 and 2)”
©️2020 by Gloria M. Chang
“The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal name”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 1, translated by Derek Lin
Tao is the word used to translate Logos of St.… Read the rest
“The nature of God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere” is an idea often attributed to St. Augustine, but which originated as far back as Empedocles in the 5th century B.C.… Read the rest
Concepts, words, images, and language all derive from spacetime. Concepts about God are like dotted lines attempting to outline formlessness. They take us to the precipice of human knowing beyond which we plunge into docta ignorantia (“learned ignorance”), in the words of the 15th century German philosopher, theologian and mystic Nicholas of Cusa.… Read the rest
