Whether we will or no, there is an esoteric doctrine — there is a relative revelation; each man enters into God so much as God enters into him ; or, as Angelus, I think, said, " The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which He sees me. Journal: The Journal Intime - Page 7by Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887Full view - About this book
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - Swiss literature (French) - 1893 - 852 pages
...a relative revelation ; each man enters into God so much as God enters into him, or as Angelus,2 I think, said, ' the eye by which I see God is the same...ye are gods,' and so would St. Paul, • who tells ns that we are of 'the race of God.' Our oentury wants a new theology -i— that id to say, a jfaore... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literary Collections - 1896 - 582 pages
...a relative revelation; each man enters into God so much as God enters into him ; or, as Angelus, I think, said, " The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which He sees me." Duty has the virtue of making us feel the reality of a positive world while at the same time detaching... | |
| New Thought - 1900 - 436 pages
...is only with this same rebel of a man-eye that God sees His child. Angelus Silesius put it this way: "The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which He sees me." Had not a divine discontent goaded us out of animalism, we had never risen above the other creatures... | |
| 1899 - 828 pages
...— Amid. The essence of all religion that was, and that will be, is to make men free. — Carlyle. The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which he sees me. — Scheffler. For as to children, through their inexperience, ugly masks appear terrible and fearful,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 306 pages
...be done, that is not comprehended in God. Much the same idea appears in a line of Angelas Silesius " The eye by which I; see God is the same eye by which God sees me." Emerson has written few poems stronger than this fine piece of mysticism, with its subtle... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 304 pages
...be done, that is not comprehended God. Much the same idea appears in a line of Angelas Silesius " 1 eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees m Emerson has written few poems stronger than this fine piece mysticism, with its subtle Oriental... | |
| E. Mark Stern - Psychology - 1989 - 344 pages
...insufficient appreciation of self, what is to prevent the sheep from following? Meister Eckhart, who said, “The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees me,” might represent the other end of a theologian's continuum of transformed placaters;... | |
| Lynda Sexson - History - 1992 - 148 pages
...utterly transcendent, the divine confronts the human from within the human voice and vision. As Eckhart said, "The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees me: one in seeing, one in knowing, one in loving." Eckhart, of course, was one of the great... | |
| Jean Houston - Religion - 1992 - 200 pages
...our time the longing itself becomes the experience. Perhaps we can paraphrase Meister Eckhart when he said, "The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees me." Now we can say that the longing with which we yearn for God is the same longing with... | |
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