Union with God: The Eyes Have It

One Eye, One Love, One Knowing, One Being

In his sixteenth sermon, the great German Dominican mystic Meister Eckhart (1260-ca. 1327) said this:

If my eye is to perceive colour, it must be free of all colours. If I see the colour blue or white, then the seeing of my eye, which perceives the colour, is exactly the same as what it sees, as what is seen by the eye. The eye with which I see God is ex…