My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read. - Meister Eckhart

We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.

Listening leads us more inside ourselves whereas seeing leads us more outside — the work of seeing itself, that is. And, therefore, we will be far more blessed with eternal life by the power of listening than by the power of sight. The act of listening allows me to hear the eternal Word spoken with me, whereas sight leads me astray, to what is outside myself. In listening, I suffer (or allow); in seeing, I work.

Where there is Isness, there God is. Creation is the giving of isness from God. And that is why God becomes where any creature expresses God.