“If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: ‘Why are you living?’ life, if it could answer, would only say, ‘I live so that I may live.’ That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.” ~ Meister Eckhart
This is a mindblower. I struggle to link this to what I have come to understand about Eckhart. I have little to offer. Life lives because of God who created and creates lives. Once brought forth, life lives and lives and lives on and on and will continue to exist until God were to choose either. Given the covenant he has promised us, this can’t happen. What will happen is life will evolve from what we understand now and become something we can’t foresee even in the smallest measures.
The issue is not that live continues of its own initiative but is rather who life exists for, God.
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