A simple stillness

To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself.

This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

– Meister Eckhart

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I stand in the stillness of the late afternoon

darkening clouds brood

thunder rolls

lightning flashes through the gathering dark

exposed

on the wet road

as the rain falls

alone

driven within myself

down to that deep

core

that is

me

it is in this place

that I find myself again

that self so lost

so tattered

by life

and it is in this place of

storm and fury

my humanity

exposed

that

the Sacred

is most

Sacred