Giving Nature of God

The Return of The Prodigal Son - Rembrandt

"I declare that I will not pray to God to give to me, 

nor praise Him for what He has given me, but, 

I will pray to him to make me worthy to receive, 

and I will praise Him because 

He is of such a nature and essence that 

He must give. 

That we must thus in truth become the son, 

may that truth help us, of which I have spoken. 

Amen."

 

~Meister Eckhart

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He Draws Us...

 

"He draws us unto Himself by love… 

and then we can do nothing but behold Him, 

enjoying, with a high, 

mighty desire to be all oned unto Him—

centered to His dwelling—

and enjoy His loving and delight in His goodness."

~Julian of Norwich

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On One Hand...

 

AI Generated

On one hand, 

I know it is not easy to recognize the real 'I'. 

On the other hand, 

the real I has a different 'taste' or feeling within us. 

When I am identified, 

I can still discern the real I. 

It's just that in the midst of the identification, 

I dismiss it and follow through 

with the path of least resistance, 

the identified path. 

I want to borrow M's comment 

and apply it to the real I:

“It's the spark, 

the fire within us. 

We need to tend to it, 

to not extinguish it. 

To keep it going, growing. 

I can feel it inside of me. The fire within.”

I have verified that the real I 

is the way the soul communicates with me. 

If I dismiss it, 

the communication path reduces. 

If I listen to it, 

then a real relationship is developed.

~T

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