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Dialogue 2: The Hidden Ground of God

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

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The Paradox of Being Real

Jim Eckhart says that to be real in the fullest possible sense is to be oneself, the infinity of reality itself. So if that's what it means to be real, then by that definition, we're not real. He says although we of ourselves are nothing at all, relative to this fullness of what it Means To Be Real, God presences itself and gives itself to us as our reality. "Every creature is like a book filled with God," he said.

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