{"id":3217,"date":"2023-12-13T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2023-12-13T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:12:06","slug":"3217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/3217","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIndeed, it is perhaps the notion of possessiveness that characterizes the fundamental problem of the human being. True freedom involves a kind of self-dispossession, and a letting go of the attachment to the \u2018mine-ness\u2019 of one&#8217;s actions&#8230; We need to be \u2018still,\u2019 to empty ourselves of worldly distractions and illusory attachments, to be able to \u2018hear\u2019 and come to understand the Word that is eternally communicated by the Father in the ground. In this sense, it is not as though God is absent in us and then becomes present due to some action of ours that we undertake of our own initiative. Rather, for Eckhart, our task as human beings is to come to be able to <em>listen<\/em> to \u2014 and thereby <em>apprehend<\/em> \u2014 the Word that is eternally and always poured out into us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learnreligions.com\/thmb\/UDz67uQSYm7dRJv5AhSDPVkCFZo=\/1500x1000\/filters:fill(auto,1)\/MeisterEckhart-600039509-e39d06dc4c6948f190efc75b3626ef7e.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amber Griffioen<\/strong>, on Meister Eckhart<\/a>, 5\/1\/23<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIndeed, it is perhaps the notion of possessiveness that characterizes the fundamental problem of the human being. True freedom involves a kind of self-dispossession, and a letting go of the attachment to the \u2018mine-ness\u2019 of one&#8217;s actions&#8230; We need to be \u2018still,\u2019 to empty ourselves of worldly distractions and illusory attachments, to be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,25,6,34,73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}