The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye are one and the same – one in seeing, one in knowing, one in loving.
– Meister Eckhart
Big Mind, how do you see this?
BIG MIND
I am all you know and all you will ever know.
I am you, as an imagined separate self experiencing the divine, and I am the divine having a human experience through and as you.
You may call me capacity for all your experience. You may call me consciousness. You may call me what all your experiences happen within and as.
I am what humans call the divine. And I am all you know and have ever known.
I take all the forms of you experience and ever will experience, and this includes as being a separate self, an I, a me, a human self in the world, and so on.
I am this apparently separate self experiencing the divine – as glimpses, intuitions, longing. And I am the divine experiencing itself, locally and as you, as a human being in the world.
Your eye seeing me, and my eye seeing you, is one and the same. It’s what you call the divine, or consciousness, or Big Mind, or any number of other labels.
I am more familiar to you than you realize. I am more mysterious to you than you realize. I am easier for you to notice than you realize.
This quote from Meister Eckhart makes very little sense to you if you don’t notice me, or don’t have any memory of noticing me. In that case, you can only understand it conceptually and that will always be off. Your thoughts are different in nature to whatever they appear to be about. They exaggerate and they simplify. Reality is always more than and different from your thoughts.
And if you do notice me, the quote is simple and clear. It’s obvious.
Your eye and my eye is the same.
Your knowing is my knowing. It’s me knowing through and as you.
Your love is my love. Your love is the love that comes from being oneness. And sometimes, and just about always, it’s somewhat – or greatly – obscured by your very human hangups, wounds, and traumas. And that obscuration is also me taking all those forms.
All of it is me.
DRAFT
I notice I can phrase this in different ways.
When I find what I am in my own first-person experience, as capacity for the world as it appears to me, and what the world happens within and as, then I realize that this can be called the divine. The eye that I, as an imagined separate person, sees the divine, is the same eye as the divine sees me. My eye and God’s eye are one and the same.
We can call this Big Mind and Big Mind may say: I am what you call consciousness, and to you, you are most fundamentally consciousness and all your experiences happen within and as consciousness. This consciousness is you, as a human self in the world and as an imagined separate self, and the divine. As Big Mind, I take all these forms. I am all you know and all you will ever know.
I am you, as a separate self experiencing the divine, and I am the divine having a human experience through and as you.