Harmony Quote

“The cloud of unknowing ”

By love may He be gotten and holden, by thought never.

The Supreme, radiant being that dwells in our own consciousness cannot be attained by any amount of reasoning, for this Being is one and indivisible, beyond all duality. But by loving Him ‘with all our heart, and all our soul, and all our strength,” we can come to live in Him completely. When we learn to love Her more than we love ourselves, our consciousness is unified. It is all very well to talk about the Ultimate Reality, the Great Void, but we cannot love a Void. Here it is that we need God in an aspect we can love and understand; a Supreme Poet, the Sustainer and Protector of all, from whom we came into existence and to whom we shall return. We need a divide ideal like Sri Krishna, Jesus the Christ, the Compassionate Buddha or the Divine Mother.

Loving the Lord means loving the innermost Self in all those around us. We need only somehow to increase our capacity to love – because we do not live in what we think, we live in what we love.  

(From ‘Words To Live By’ by Eknath Easwaran, founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, copyright 2005; reprinted by permission of Nilgiri Press, P.O. Box 256, Tomales, Ca 94971, www.bmcm.org.)