24. The eye through which you see God is the same eye through which God sees you.

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.” ~ Meister Eckhart

The imagery here is so powerful and so moving, the description of unity so hopeful and reassuring. It is also unsettling. When my eye is focused on creation, on things of beauty and purpose, I am pleased there is but one eye between us. There other times, many other times when my eye is not so focused.

I may be looking on things which I perceived to be material value, things that would provide fleeting pleasure but which also might simply be against his teachings and a temptation to sin or simply divert my attention from where I should be fully engaged.

There is no doubt of the truth of this. The eye through which we see God connects not only to the brain but to the soul as well. The soul is where God is so he instantly knows at our core what our sees, where our attention devoted and from there where our intentions lie.

One eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. If only we could keep blinking much less looking away in an act of separation.