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 Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of experiencing the divine beyond preconceived ideas of God.
Meister Eckhart suggests that true spiritual enlightenment involves transcending limited concepts of God and experiencing a deeper, more profound connection with the divine. It invites individuals to move beyond intellectual notions of God and embrace a direct, transformative experience of spiritual truth.
In practice
During a spiritual retreat, a speaker reflected on the quote to encourage participants to seek personal experiences of the divine.
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.
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
I think a culture of nonviolence will help create the condition where poverty is unacceptable, where racism is way behind us and not something that we have to deal with on a frequent basis, and where militarism and violence are reduced almost to be nonexistent.
Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.
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