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[sophiaserpentia]

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
--Meister Eckhart

Agree or disagree?

http://www.livejournal.com/users/sophiaserpentia/142843.html

http://www.livejournal.com/users/sophiaserpentia/153627.html

http://www.livejournal.com/users/sophiaserpentia/230197.html

Comments

[lucretius.livejournal.com]

Hm. I think I come out on the side of the dynamic here. Or one of those keen paradoxes. Immobility and unchangeability without a flip side of perpetual change and motion is just death.

Though stillness and immobility might potentially not be synonyms here.

Hm. Perhaps they're not.

God is like the pause that refreshes?

Lu.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm fond of the Taoist aphorism, "God is that which never acts yet leaves nothing undone." Which I interpret to mean that God provides the potential whereby things exist and events happen. This kind of "dynamic stillness" is not, IMO, exactly the same as immobility.

I kind of imagined that some of the pagans or polytheists on my friend's list might speak up, because they are the only people I know who's theology would be almost completely incompatible with Eckhart's statement.