Man’s last and highest leave-taking is leaving God for God.
UPDATE: The thought above in a broader context:
I will put into plain words what St. Paul means by wishing to depart from God. Man’s last and highest leave-taking is leaving God for God. St. Paul left God for God: he left everything he could give or take of God, every concept of God. In leaving these, he left God for God since God remained to him in his essential self, not as a concept of himself, or as an acquired thing, but God in his essential actuality.
From An Introduction to Meister Eckhart
H/T to Windhorse in the comments at Adventus.
One of my favorite people Eckhart. A renegade in his own time in his theology, but WOW is he ever mind-blowing. Love the quote.
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