Glory

The third interruption

Photo: The interplay of light and finely grained ripples in water, Tallman State Park, NY

Last night I spoke of the way that glory flows into being at the root of awareness.

In my last quote, I cited Meister Eckhart, who said, Here some folk will say, 'You are telling us wondrous things, but we perceive them not. ' I regret that too. This state is so noble yet so common, that you have no need to purchase it for a penny or a halfpenny. If your intention is right and your will is free, you have it.

It can be said of human beings, that we do not even know what we lack, until we rediscover it from within; and in that single instant discover that being is nothing like what we thought it was, and that we have in fact, never actually been.

Then we are reborn into glory—slowly, perhaps, because glory is patient, but reborn nonetheless.

Perhaps this is the great difficulty: we try to think of being from a place of not – being; and because we are within not – being, everything we think of is not being in the first place. To Be is quite different than what we think of; and what we think of it is what creates the obstacle, contaminates the brew, spoils the food in the kitchen. So, above all we must not think; and yet we think about not thinking. The irony is implicit, and we don't understand how to come to the place where there is no thinking.

The place of stillness.