WHY WE MEDITATE

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. -- Meister Eckhart

I wonder when I read that quote how I can know it to be true and yet not know exactly what it means. Ah, but I do know...only my reasoning mind is left wondering.

I'm a believer that we can only know God through our inner...intuitive?---self. There is no body to hug, hand to hold, arm to lean on. And yet. We are gifted with a sense of each and all of these and everything, all things, more as one unformed package. A Force if you will...a divine Force of love, of love alone.

I'm also a believer that without a sense of something greater than what our eyes can see, our fingers can touch...a something comprised only of goodness...we are stuck in our own littleness, filled with doubts, fear, anger and longing for something greater...to love.

I'm fairly certain I came to my beliefs when I heard the fact that turned me from analyzing to realizing, that fact being: Spiritual knowledge is more about retrieving than receiving. There it is. The short and sweet of why we meditate.

Thank you.