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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.

[arbiteroftruth.livejournal.com]

i agree.

[athena813.livejournal.com]

I agree in so much that stillness is fullness, completeness, the sort of stillness that you have written about in your posts, especially the Tao.

In this sense, I agree with it all. Stillness is as God. Attaining this harmony or stillness within ourselves is to be like God, or a God. Since we are living beings, I see this energized by rhythm; to me it is like the SoHam that you also wrote about. . .unfortunately that would be a huge entry for me to describe, and get into right now (the ryhthm inherent in all things, on all planes; tuning; how LOGOS is the archetypal concept of bellowing forth while in tune with the 'rhythm'; how this relates to K&C with HGA, especially considering hearing=spirit, and the symbolism behind the Vissudha chakra).

But you write about these things in a much more refined manner than I could, and the way you set forth these points is so much more logical. I look very much forward to reading more.

[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.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your thoughts.

And don't underestimate your ability to describe these thoughts with precision. Precision or refinement are not necessarily boons in a realm where the naive approach is often the best.