You should not imagine that your reason can evolve to the extent of understanding God. Rather, if God is to shine divinely within you, your natural l… - Meister Eckhart

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You should not imagine that your reason can evolve to the extent of understanding God. Rather, if God is to shine divinely within you, your natural light cannot assist this process but must become a pure nothingness, going out of itself. Only then can God enter with his light, bringing back with him all that you have renounced and a thousand times more, including a new form which contains all things in itself.