The great Meister Eckhart knew that life was much greater than what he could grasp or make sense of. He reminds us that holding a space for what we do not know is just as important as our ideas and concepts about what is happening. What do we really know about ourselves, our experience, our world?:
“I ask God to rid me of God,” Meister Eckhart says.
The God, who is known and familiar, is far too small for him.
Dorothee Sölle, The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance
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When we live superficially, we are always outside ourselves, never quite ‘with’ ourselves, always divided and pulled in many directions – we find ourselves doing many things that we do not really want to do, saying things we do not really mean, needing things we do not really need, exhausting ourselves for what we secretly realize to be worthless and without meaning in our lives. “Why spend your money on what is not food and your earnings on what fails to satisfy?” (Isaiah 55)
Thomas Merton, Love and Living
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Everyone should sit firmly anchored in the place
where there is no better and worse.
Kodo Sawaki, 1880 – 1965, Japanese Sōtō Zen teacher
The Real …expects nothing of speech
Le réel …n’attend rien de la parole.
Jacques Lacan, French Psychoanalyst, Ecrits
Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad.
That causes an emotional contraction.
When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you.
The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself
Eckhart Tolle
God dreams us
and we should not let God dream alone
Dorothee Sölle, German Theologian, 1929 – 2003,Theology for Skeptics.
