Rumi and Other Mystical Poets List: Meister Eckhart - WHEN I WAS THE FOREST

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Monday, November 8, 2004

Meister Eckhart - WHEN I WAS THE FOREST

WHEN I WAS THE FOREST When I was the stream, when I was the forest, when I was still the field, when I was every hoof, foot, fin and wing, when I was the sky itself, no one ever asked me did I have a purpose, no one ever wondered was there anything I might need, for there was nothing I could not love. It was when I left all we once were that the agony began, the fear and questions came, and I wept, I wept. And tears I had never known before. So I returned to the river, I returned to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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