Meditation: Deeper and Beyond

"Be Transformed into a Child of Eternity"

In the middle of the fifteenth century, Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), a philosopher and mystic who also happened to be a Catholic bishop and cardinal, wrote the treatise De filiatione Dei (“on being a child of God”), in which he had this to say about the practice of meditation:

In meditation one deepens the consciousness beyond all opposites, all forms, …