Thomas Merton was a Catholic Priest. A different translation for God's answer to Moses about what His name was, is: "I will become whatsoever I will become"! And none of us can question Him, Who made both man and woman in His image. He will make Himself nothingness whenever He chooses and not when you do.
@@cherylmburton5577 Well if he would have lived a little longer he would have concured with Meister Eckhart here {Now pay attention to this. God is nameless for no one can either speak of him or know him. Therefore a pagan master says that what we can know or say of the First Cause reflects ourselves more than it does the First Cause, for this transcends all speech and all understanding . . . He is being beyond being: he is a nothingness beyond being. Therefore St. Augustine says: ‘The finest thing that we can say of God is to be silent concerning him from the wisdom of inner riches.’ Be silent therefore, and do not chatter about God, for by chattering about him, you tell lies and commit a sin. If you wish to be perfect and without sin, then do not prattle about God. Also you should not wish to understand anything about God, for God is beyond all understanding. A master says: If I had a God that I could understand, I would not regard him as God. If you understand anything about him, then he is not in it, and by understanding something of him, you fall into ignorance, and by falling into ignorance, you become like an animal since the animal part in creatures is that which is unknowing. If you do not wish to become like an animal therefore, do not pretend that you understand anything of the ineffable God.” ― Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings
Paradoxical diminishment
Being led to your self
Gratitude. Profound gratitude.
So beautiful, both the content and the narrative.
refering to god as him is still an image, an idea, no thing ness is not he or she.
Thomas Merton was a Catholic Priest. A different translation for God's answer to Moses about what His name was, is: "I will become whatsoever I will become"! And none of us can question Him, Who made both man and woman in His image. He will make Himself nothingness whenever He chooses and not when you do.
@@cherylmburton5577 Well if he would have lived a little longer he would have concured with Meister Eckhart here {Now pay attention to this. God is nameless for no one can either speak of him or know him. Therefore a pagan master says that what we can know or say of the First Cause reflects ourselves more than it does the First Cause, for this transcends all speech and all understanding . . . He is being beyond being: he is a nothingness beyond being. Therefore St. Augustine says: ‘The finest thing that we can say of God is to be silent concerning him from the wisdom of inner riches.’ Be silent therefore, and do not chatter about God, for by chattering about him, you tell lies and commit a sin. If you wish to be perfect and without sin, then do not prattle about God. Also you should not wish to understand anything about God, for God is beyond all understanding. A master says: If I had a God that I could understand, I would not regard him as God. If you understand anything about him, then he is not in it, and by understanding something of him, you fall into ignorance, and by falling into ignorance, you become like an animal since the animal part in creatures is that which is unknowing. If you do not wish to become like an animal therefore, do not pretend that you understand anything of the ineffable God.”
― Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings