Meister Eckhart - We ARE God

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The Soul is God

 

Come now, noble souls, & take a look at the splendor you are carrying within

yourselves!

 

But if you do not let go of yourself completely, if you do not drown yourself in

this bottomless sea of the Godhead, you cannot know this divine light.

 

When the soul is totally lost, it finds that it is teh very self it had sought

for

so long in vain. Here the soul is God.

 

Here it enjoys supreme bliss. Here it is sufficient unto itself. Here it shines

with its own radiance. Here at last, it has found that the Kingdom of God is

itself!

 

There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the

door of your own heart. There he stands waiting till He finds you ready to open

the door & let Him enter.

 

No need for you to call to Him from afar - He is waiting more impatiently than

you

for that door to open. He wants you a thousand times more urgently than you want

Him. There is only one thing you must do - open the door & enter.

 

No one has ever longed so much for anything as God longs to bring man to Him.

 

God is so close to us, but we are distant & turned away from God. God is within,

we are without. God is at home with us, but we are strangers to ourselves.

 

~Meister Eckhart~