Meister Eckhart: Session 1
Turning to the Mystics with James Finley
The Essence of Limit
When parents give the newborn infant, in terms of its powers, it's powerless. The developmental stages of emerging into conscious reflective adult has not even begun yet. It's like the essence of limit is so powerless. And yet in its powerlessness, when they clasp the infant to their breast, they're smitten by the infant. There's something precious about the presence of the infant that they don't understand and they don't need to understand it because it's not understandable in terms of their powers.
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