"Where individuality ends, there God begins. God wants nothing more of you than for you to go out of yourself and all individuality and let God be God within. The most insignificant individual structure that takes form in you is as big as God. How is that? It completely obstructs God. Once the structure appears, God and all his Godhead disappear. Once the structure is transcended, God enters. . . He reveals himself in the soul in boundless wisdom, which is himself. . . " -- Meister Eckhart
Consider yourself as consciousness, as awareness. Open to your being as consciousness in process, changeable, ever-changing.
Consider that you have choice and that you choose what fills your consciousness -- now this, now that, now the other. As your attention shifts from here to there, and there to here, the consciousness that is you is transformed.
When you both will and allow yourself to be still, when you allow your attention to rest on one thing and one thing only, one simple focus (a flower, a cloud, a tree, a word, a sound), the consciousness that is you becomes clear and still and open.
This quiet stillness, this quiescence is as far as many meditative practices go. Our detached and unlimited will to know allows going further. When we drop all identification, knowledge and wisdom are revealed. We know and we are known.
We disappear. Only God, only the Godhead remains. This is grace, the grace of the One who breathes us. Unlimited comprehension opens.
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Right on, George, or Stillness emanating from George! :)
ReplyDeleteThe alchemical dictum, "As above, so below," reveals our microcosmic existence: our emptying (kenosis) opens a Genesis-like void—for a virgin birth—where the Spirit of God moves upon the water's face, saying, "Let there be Light." Indeed, we've disappeared; and in this Creation's wake, transcending the empty husk, the Godhead fully shines.
ReplyDelete--MCB
Thanks one more time for describing that which for me is indescribable! I use the following words of yours often, and again as I read today's post, I found myself breathing the Love that breathes me.
ReplyDeleteYou are an amazing person. My love is with you, my friend.
Patrick