Swooning!

Sometimes I see a flower so beautiful, or read a poem so lovely that I feel like I might faint! I am not quite sure why this happens, but it’s a sure sign for me that I have come into contact with something that is really important for me. Yesterday, I started reading a book called Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart: Meditations for the Restless Soul, by Jon M Sweeney and Mark S Burrows. Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest and a mystic. I read the first poem and experienced that feeling of swooning… Oh boy, the words were so beautiful and seemed so true that I wanted to share it with you:

Opening the Heart’s Door

Ours is not the work

of seeking You here

or there where we

think You might be,

but of opening

the heart’s door,

and when we do this

You cannot resist

coming in, since

our opening and Your

entering are one; You

knock and wait, and

when we open we

find that You were

there all along and

will not leave us.