How do you tell the story of your inner journey? Join James Finley for the healing stories online

retreat. Saturday, August 26th from 9-5 Pacific. Inspired by his memoir, The Healing Path,

Jim offers guided reflections to help you become more conscious of the thread of your own sacred

journey. The event will be recorded and all registered will have access to the replay.

Register today at cac.org-healing-retreat. That's cac.org slash h-e-a-l-i-n-g-r-e-t-r-e-a-t.

You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more,

visit cac.org. Greetings. I'm Jim Finley. Welcome to Turning to the Mistress.

Greetings, everyone, and welcome to our time together at Turning for Guidance to the Christian

Mystic Meister Eckhart. In this fourth session, it will be the last session I'll be doing alone on

Eckhart. Kirsten Oates will be dialoguing with me about it and you'll have a chance also

to ask questions. But in this last one, I want to acknowledge that there's really too much here

for one session, but we only have one session. So I'd rather complete my lesson plan,

I know that I said it all. Knowing that on your own, if you're so inclined, you can go back and

listen to this repeatedly or take it to prayer or look at the commentaries that are provided.

If you're so inclined to pursue this, but at least just around out the picture of my

St. Eckhart's teachings. And I'd like to begin by going back to the beginning and kind of

summarizing this vision that he has, this spiritual vision and how the light shining off from

this vision that illuminates the path along which he guides us to the steeper union with God.

So we'll begin at the beginning. We begin with Eckhart's bearing witness that the generosity

of the infinite is infinite. That from all of eternity, the infinite presence of God

is presencing itself and pouring itself out whole and complete

in and as the gift and the miracle of the intimate immediacy of our very presence,

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