Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
Meister EckhartRead
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.
Interpretation
The quote explores the nature of divinity and how angels serve as representations of God.
Meister Eckhart suggests that the essence of the soul and its greatest form is akin to the divine nature of God. However, he emphasizes that angels, as beings created in a certain aspect, offer a more relatable image of God to humanity, illustrating the idea that while the ultimate reality of God is profound and lofty, angels serve as intermediaries that help bridge the understanding of the divine.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a religious gathering to discuss the nature of God and angels.
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.
What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.
In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.
Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.
If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.
I titled the book 'Homo Deus' because we really are becoming gods in the most literal sense possible. We are acquiring abilities that have always been thought to be divine abilities - in particular, the ability to create life. And we can do with that whatever we want.
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214
I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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