No barrel can hold two different drinks. If it is to contain wine, then the water must be poured out so that the barrel is quite empty. Therefore, if you wish to be filled with God and divine joy, then you must pour the creatures out of yourself. St Augustine says: ‘Pour out, [...]
The quote I mentioned from Eckhart is:
“they do him wrong who take God just in one particular way. They take the way rather than God”.
It is from Sermon 19. Eckhart is a Dominican who lived from around 1260 to 1328. His history is controversial, but his writings are profound.
The Orthodox podcast I recommended is Our [...]
April 30, 2008 – 11:21 am
A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has bot bound its best part to any particular manner of being or devotion and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God’s most precious will, having gone out of what is its own. [...]
April 28, 2008 – 10:48 am
Take any work you wish, however minor it may be, true obedience will make it nobler and better for you. Obedience always brings out the very best in all things.
Meister Eckhart, The Talks of Instruction, 1
… they do him wrong who take God just in one particular way. They take the way rather than God.
Meister Eckhart, Sermon 19
The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances. Therein can no man hinder him, for he neither aims at nor enjoys anything else, save God. God is united with Him in all his purposes and designs. Even as no [...]
