Matthew Fox — No One Has Missed Me

When Thich Nhat Hanh talks about nirvana,

I cannot help but hear Eckhart talking about the Godhead,

Says Thich Nhat Hanh:

“In the phenomenal world, we see that there is birth and death.

There is coming and going, being and non-being.

But in nirvana,

which is the ground of being equivalent to God,

there is no birth, no death, no coming,

no going, no being, no non-being.

All these concepts must be transcended.”

Eckhart teaches that the Godhead,

from whom we all come and to whom we shall all return,

is of such unity that “everything within the Godhead is unity,

and we cannot speak about it.

And when one returns to the Godhead,

“no one asks me where I’m coming from

or where I’ve been.

No one has missed me.”

Matthew Fox

Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times