' When the Idea is Gone '...

"Where the creature ends, there God begins to be.

God only asks that you get out of his way insofar you are creature, and let him be God in you.

The least creaturely idea that ever entered your mind is as big as God. Why?

Because it will keep God out of you entirely.

The moment you get ideas, God fades out and the Godhead too.

It is when the idea is gone that God gets in.... Ah, beloved people, why don't you let God be God in you?

What are you afraid of?

You get out of his way and he will get out of yours -- you give up to him and he will give up to you.

When both have forsaken self, what remains is an indivisible union."



-Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hi Nothing: Sermons, Writings & Sayings
Edited by David O'Neal