• There is a large gap between talking about reality and reality as experienced. Perhaps it is just my ageing mind, but erudite discussions on the nature of the Trinity, the relations between the Persons and the relationship between it and us leave me cold. It seems so much froth. At least in our discussions of empirical reality our concepts are rooted in experience. We do not, cannot, experience God as he is in himself. In mystical experience it is not God we experience but God’s (for want of a better word) touch.
• The absence of ‘God’, darkness, emptiness, the Void, sunyata – is a truer experience of God than any ecstasy or vision.
• How can we discuss Christ’s nature, divine and human, the hypostatic union, the nature of his sonship etc. when we do not even understand our own nature?