"To think of God is not to find Him as an object of our minds, but to find ourselves in Him, a perception of our being perceived. The task is not to know the unknown but to be penetrated by it; not to know but to be known to Him, to expose ourselves to Him rather than Him to us."
Rabbi Abraham Heschel
"We know God insofar as we become aware of ourselves as known through and through by him. We 'possess' him in proportion as we realize ourselves to be possessed by him in the inmost depths of our being. The aim of meditation is not to arrive at an objective and apparently 'scientific' knowledge about God, but to come to know him through the realization that our very being is penetrated with his knowledge and love for us."
Thomas Merton
Photo: Nokhu Crags in last light, Never Summer Range, January 6, 2012
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