Nature Empties Your Soul Every Night

Meister Eckhart talks about emptying the soul. How do we do this, and how do we move through life from that empty state? Rupert says: ‘When you fall asleep at night, nature empties your soul for you by removing your perceptions, sensations, thoughts, memories, feelings. Nature is emptying your soul of its content and leaving you in the ground of being, just pure being. In the waking state, it’s not necessary to remove the content of experience from your soul. What’s necessary is to let it go, to turn your attention away from it. You can still experience something but without giving it your attention. This emptying of the soul is something we do specifically in periods of meditation or prayer. But the real art of life is to be able to go back to life and engage in activities and relationships fully, but not lose touch with your being.’

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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