How Can Longing for God Be Blasphemy?

There’s a Meister Eckhart meditations expression that blocks me: that at a certain point, the longing for God becomes blasphemy. I don’t understand this, because longing for God is a gift or grace that God has put inside me. Rupert says: ‘Your longing for God is God’s love refracted in your finite mind. However, if you remain with a longing for God, you will remain as a separate self apart from God. Because you can only long for God if you stand apart from him. What God really wants for you is not to love him as a separate self. It is to cease being a separate self and realise that you are God’s infinite being. So, longing is the veiling of love.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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