All Things Arise Out of the Spacious Desert of God's Simple Nature

 

"God's desert is God's simple nature . . . The soul takes God in his oneness and in his solitary wilderness, in his vast wasteland, and in his own ground . . . It is an amazing thing that something flows forth from God and nonetheless remains within . . . All creatures flow outward and nonetheless remain within – that is extremely amazing.” 

Meister Eckhart, 13th century Germany

"As we become more aware of the spacious awareness that is the essence of who we are, we come closer to God. Faith now looks more like a trust in the empty, spacious awareness that belongs to God and is God.  So instead of trusting in ourselves, in the story of I, to decide our next action, we can now have faith in God's spaciousness.  Here everything appears, here everything is loved . . . We have faith in no-thing . . . In fact, Life is love flowing out of emptiness . . . We are each a space of awareness which is also the infinite space of God's awareness.  It is out of the empty space of God that literally everything comes and to which it goes.
As each event arises in our clear, spacious awareness, it stands before us as an awareness of sound, movement, color, and so on.  Then it disappears back into clear awareness . . ."

Wesley Lachman, Eugene, Oregon

Photo: Alpenglow in the desert, Canyonlands National Park, UT, November 25, 2011.  This glow lasted for only several minutes.